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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
<pkgmetadata>
<maintainer type="person">
	<name>Lars Wendler</name>
	<email>polynomial-c@gentoo.org</email>
</maintainer>
<maintainer type="person">
	<email>k_f@gentoo.org</email>
	<name>Kristian Fiskerstrand</name>
</maintainer>
<longdescription>
In an ideal world, Assuan is irrelevant.  Assuan's primary use is to
allow a client to interact with a non-persistent server.  Using Assuan,
this is accomplished by forking a subprocess and communicating with it
via, for example, a pipe or unix domain socket.  This method is neither
elegant nor efficient especially when there is a lot of data spread
across several transactions: not only is there a penalty for an
increased number of context switches, but also a significant amount of
data is MEMCPYed from the client to a file descriptor and from the file
descriptor to the server.
</longdescription>
</pkgmetadata>