Golang TCPConn.SetWriteDeadline not working properly

I am trying to detect sending failures by checking the error returned by golang TCPConn.Write , but this is zero. I also tried using TCPConn.SetWriteDeadline without success.

What's happening:

• the server starts
• client connects
• the server sends a message and the client receives it
• client disconnects
• the server sends another message: no error
• the server sends a third message: only now does the error appear

Question : why only the second message of a nonexistent client leads to an error? How to handle the case?

The following code:

package main

import (
    "net"
    "os"
    "bufio"
    "fmt"
    "time"
)

func AcceptConnections(listener net.Listener, console <- chan string) {

    msg := ""

    for {

        conn, err := listener.Accept()

        if err != nil {
            panic(err)
        }

        fmt.Printf("client connected\n")

        for {

            if msg == "" {
                msg = <- console
                fmt.Printf("read from console: %s", msg)
            }

            err = conn.SetWriteDeadline(time.Now().Add(time.Second))

            if err != nil {
                fmt.Printf("SetWriteDeadline failed: %v\n", err)
            }

            _, err = conn.Write([]byte(msg))

            if err != nil {
                // expecting an error after sending a message
                // to a non-existing client endpoint
                fmt.Printf("failed sending a message to network: %v\n", err)
                break
            } else {
                fmt.Printf("msg sent: %s", msg)
                msg = ""
            }
        }
    }
}

func ReadConsole(network chan <- string) {

    console := bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin)

    for {

        line, err := console.ReadString('\n')

        if err != nil {

            panic(err)

        } else {

            network <- line
        }
    }
}

func main() {

    listener, err := net.Listen("tcp", "localhost:6666")

    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    println("listening on " + listener.Addr().String())

    consoleToNetwork := make(chan string)

    go AcceptConnections(listener, consoleToNetwork)

    ReadConsole(consoleToNetwork)
}

The server console looks like this:

listening on 127.0.0.1:6666
client connected
hi there!
read from console: hi there!
msg sent: hi there!
this one should fail
read from console: this one should fail
msg sent: this one should fail
this one actually fails
read from console: this one actually fails
failed sending a message to network: write tcp 127.0.0.1:51194: broken pipe

The client looks like this:

package main

import (
    "net"
    "os"
    "io"
    //"bufio"
    //"fmt"
)

func cp(dst io.Writer, src io.Reader, errc chan<- error) {

    // -reads from src and writes to dst
    // -blocks until EOF
    // -EOF is not an error
    _, err :=  io.Copy(dst, src)

    // push err to the channel when io.Copy returns
    errc <- err
}

func StartCommunication(conn net.Conn) {

    //create a channel for errors
    errc := make(chan error)

    //read connection and print to console
    go cp(os.Stdout, conn, errc)

    //read user input and write to connection
    go cp(conn, os.Stdin, errc)

    //wait until nil or an error arrives
    err := <- errc

    if err != nil {
        println("cp error: ", err.Error())
    }
}

func main() {

    servAddr := "localhost:6666"

    tcpAddr, err := net.ResolveTCPAddr("tcp", servAddr)

    if err != nil {
        println("ResolveTCPAddr failed:", err.Error())
        os.Exit(1)
    }

    conn, err := net.DialTCP("tcp", nil, tcpAddr)

    if err != nil {
        println("net.DialTCP failed:", err.Error())
        os.Exit(1)
    }

    defer conn.Close()

    StartCommunication(conn)

}

EDIT: JimB . . , (connWrap.IsFaulted) go.

package main

import (
    "net"
    "os"
    "bufio"
    "fmt"
)

type Connection struct {
    IsFaulted bool
    Conn net.Conn
}

func StartWritingToNetwork(connWrap * Connection, errChannel chan <- error, msgStack chan string) {

    for {

        msg := <- msgStack

        if connWrap.IsFaulted {

            //put it back for another connection
            msgStack <- msg

            return
        }

        _, err := connWrap.Conn.Write([]byte(msg))

        if err != nil {

            fmt.Printf("failed sending a message to network: %v\n", err)

            connWrap.IsFaulted = true

            msgStack <- msg

            errChannel <- err

            return

        } else {

            fmt.Printf("msg sent: %s", msg)
        }
    }
}

func StartReadingFromNetwork(connWrap * Connection, errChannel chan <- error){

    network := bufio.NewReader(connWrap.Conn)

    for (!connWrap.IsFaulted) {

        line, err := network.ReadString('\n')

        if err != nil {

            fmt.Printf("failed reading from network: %v\n", err)

            connWrap.IsFaulted = true

            errChannel <- err

        } else {

            fmt.Printf("%s", line)
        }
    }
}

func AcceptConnections(listener net.Listener, console chan string) {

    errChannel := make(chan error)

    for {

        conn, err := listener.Accept()

        if err != nil {
            panic(err)
        }

        fmt.Printf("client connected\n")

        connWrap := Connection{false, conn}

        go StartReadingFromNetwork(&connWrap, errChannel)

        go StartWritingToNetwork(&connWrap, errChannel, console)

        //block until an error occurs
        <- errChannel
    }
}

func ReadConsole(network chan <- string) {

    console := bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin)

    for {

        line, err := console.ReadString('\n')

        if err != nil {

            panic(err)

        } else {

            network <- line
        }
    }
}

func main() {

    listener, err := net.Listen("tcp", "localhost:6666")

    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    println("listening on " + listener.Addr().String())

    consoleToNetwork := make(chan string)

    go AcceptConnections(listener, consoleToNetwork)

    ReadConsole(consoleToNetwork)
}