Re: Exclusive Locking: design in a nutshell

On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 15:15, Josh Pieper wrote:

> > The DAV spec speaks of shared (read and write) locks, but doesn't
> > specify how they behave. Therefore we can do anything that's reasonable.
> > IMHO the only thing that's reasonable is for all clients that have a
> > shared lock on the same object to see the same contents. Ergo,
> > transaction-per-lock.
>
> If every PUT caused a commit without using shared transactions, the
> same result would occur, correct? All clients who hold the shared
> lock would see the results as soon as a PUT is issued. It would just
> have the side effect of allowing clients who don't have the shared
> lock to see the results of each PUT as well.

Yes, you're right. That's how I understand it.

A "lock", whether it be shared or not, is just a row in a table that
means, "this person (or persons) has exclusive rights to commit to the
HEAD version of this path."

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Received on Thu May 20 22:41:58 2004