Github user afs commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/jena/pull/108#issuecomment-164421545
I hope the comment explains usage especially as the variable is private.
Other names are equally problematic. This is still technically a "lock free
implementation" because "lock", means a lock on data items. Usually this is
made clear by the term alternative name "latch".
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