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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
<pkgmetadata>
	<maintainer>
		<email>sochotnicky@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Stanislav Ochotnicky</name>
	</maintainer>
	<longdescription lang="en">
		A "dogpile" lock, one which allows a single thread to generate an
		expensive resource while other threads use the "old" value, until the
		"new" value is ready.

		Dogpile is basically the locking code extracted from the Beaker package,
		for simple and generic usage.
	</longdescription>
</pkgmetadata>