Re: Locking design (was Re: svn commit: r9885 - trunk/notes)

C. Michael Pilato wrote:

><thinkingaloud>
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You do the loud part pretty well, yes. :-)

>But then again ... implementing depth-infinity directory locks means
>that to implement "lock dir; unlock dir/subdir", we'll either need
>some way to indicate lock exceptions (a negation token of sorts) or
>we'll end up exploding the locks into per-resource locks table rows
>anyway, in which case directory locking is again useless.
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Oh no, no exceptions. If you lock a directory, you implicitly lock all
the files, yes, but that doesn't mean you can make an exception. No, you
have to unlock the directory itself. That's SOP.

Funny thing, that in the WebDAV locking spec, too. :-)

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Received on Thu May 27 02:49:36 2004