> From: Greg Hudson [mailto:ghudson@MIT.EDU]
> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 6:23 PM
> To: Julian Reschke
> Cc: dev@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: RE: Adding a no-op LOCK to mod_dav_svn
>
>
> On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 07:17, Julian Reschke wrote:
> > This sounds like you're suggesting to allow multiple clients to
> WebDAV-LOCK
> > the same resource at the same time, obtaining the same lock token.
>
> I didn't say the lock token would only contain the crev or
> node-revision-id; it could also contain a uniquifier.
>
> Unfortunately, I can't come up with a totally correct abstract
> justification for a stateless lock mechanism. I could say that when the
> second client asks for a lock (or even asks for "lock discovery" per RFC
> 2518 section 6.6), the first client's lock is abstractly discarded. But
> that's not really true; the first client's lock will still be honored as
> long as the resource has not been changed.
I think this can't work by definition. LOCK creates a resource identified by
the lock token (which happens to be a URI), and that lock is associated both
with the HTTP resource being locked and the namespace it protects. RFC2518
(sect. 6.3) even calls a lock token a "state token".
> ...
Julian
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