What are sentinel errors in Go and how are they created?

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What are sentinel errors in Go and how are they created?
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Sentinel errors are pre-defined error variables, often declared as global constants of type `error` using `errors.New()`. They are useful for representing specific, well-known error conditions that callers might want to explicitly check for, like `io.EOF`.