diff --git a/syncs/syncs.go b/syncs/syncs.go
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+// Copyright (c) 2020 Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// Package syncs contains addition sync types.
+package syncs
+
+import "sync/atomic"
+
+// ClosedChan returns a channel that's already closed.
+func ClosedChan() <-chan struct{} { return closedChan }
+
+var closedChan = initClosedChan()
+
+func initClosedChan() <-chan struct{} {
+	ch := make(chan struct{})
+	close(ch)
+	return ch
+}
+
+// WaitGroupChan is like a sync.WaitGroup, but has a chan that closes
+// on completion that you can wait on. (This, you can only use the
+// value once)
+// Also, its zero value is not usable. Use the constructor.
+type WaitGroupChan struct {
+	n    int64         // atomic
+	done chan struct{} // closed on transition to zero
+}
+
+// NewWaitGroupChan returns a new single-use WaitGroupChan.
+func NewWaitGroupChan() *WaitGroupChan {
+	return &WaitGroupChan{done: make(chan struct{})}
+}
+
+// DoneChan returns a channel that's closed on completion.
+func (c *WaitGroupChan) DoneChan() <-chan struct{} { return c.done }
+
+// Add adds delta, which may be negative, to the WaitGroupChan
+// counter. If the counter becomes zero, all goroutines blocked on
+// Wait or the Done chan are released. If the counter goes negative,
+// Add panics.
+//
+// Note that calls with a positive delta that occur when the counter
+// is zero must happen before a Wait. Calls with a negative delta, or
+// calls with a positive delta that start when the counter is greater
+// than zero, may happen at any time. Typically this means the calls
+// to Add should execute before the statement creating the goroutine
+// or other event to be waited for.
+func (c *WaitGroupChan) Add(delta int) {
+	n := atomic.AddInt64(&c.n, int64(delta))
+	if n == 0 {
+		close(c.done)
+	}
+}
+
+// Decr decrements the WaitGroup counter by one.
+//
+// (It is like sync.WaitGroup's Done method, but we don't use Done in
+// this type, because it's ambiguous between Context.Done and
+// WaitGroup.Done. So we use DoneChan and Decr instead.)
+func (wg *WaitGroupChan) Decr() {
+	wg.Add(-1)
+}
+
+// Wait blocks until the WaitGroupChan counter is zero.
+func (wg *WaitGroupChan) Wait() { <-wg.done }
diff --git a/syncs/syncs_test.go b/syncs/syncs_test.go
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+// Copyright (c) 2020 Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package syncs
+
+import "testing"
+
+func TestWaitGroupChan(t *testing.T) {
+	wg := NewWaitGroupChan()
+
+	wantNotDone := func() {
+		t.Helper()
+		select {
+		case <-wg.DoneChan():
+			t.Fatal("done too early")
+		default:
+		}
+	}
+
+	wantDone := func() {
+		t.Helper()
+		select {
+		case <-wg.DoneChan():
+		default:
+			t.Fatal("expected to be done")
+		}
+	}
+
+	wg.Add(2)
+	wantNotDone()
+
+	wg.Decr()
+	wantNotDone()
+
+	wg.Decr()
+	wantDone()
+	wantDone()
+}
+
+func TestClosedChan(t *testing.T) {
+	ch := ClosedChan()
+	for i := 0; i < 2; i++ {
+		select {
+		case <-ch:
+		default:
+			t.Fatal("not closed")
+		}
+	}
+}