Re: Pressing need for exclusive locking

"Ronald Cannes" <roncannes@hotmail.com> writes:

> Second, beeing able to hijack a lock doesn't sound right to me. When
> you lease a resource, you should be confident that all other are only
> reading it. For some types of files, beeing able to lock it completely
> is crucial! It is so crucial that I know several organizations run
> SourceSafe along with CVS/SVN simply because of this need.

Please, not this debate... again. People have argued for years about
whether 'advisory' locks vs. 'forced' locks are better or necessary.
Some people believe what you say above, that locks be absolutely
unbreakable. Others believe that locks are just communication tools,
and so an advisory lock is just as useful -- if someone forcibly
breaks it, then you have a social/communications problem in your
company, not a software problem.

But rather than debate this -- look at the locking-plan.txt. It's
modeled after the DAV lock specification, which allows both kinds of
locks.

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Received on Wed Sep 3 20:41:08 2003