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019package org.apache.commons.compress.parallel;
020
021import java.io.IOException;
022
023/**
024 * Supplies {@link ScatterGatherBackingStore} instances.
025 *
026 * @since 1.10
027 */
028public interface ScatterGatherBackingStoreSupplier {
029    /**
030     * Constructs a ScatterGatherBackingStore.
031     *
032     * @return a ScatterGatherBackingStore, not null
033     * @throws IOException when something fails
034     */
035    ScatterGatherBackingStore get() throws IOException;
036}