Re: Exclusive Locking: 2nd draft

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:

> * Any transaction attempting to be committed will have its changed-paths
> compared to the locks table. If someone other than a lock-holder is
> attempting to change a locked path, the commit is rejected. (As an
> optimization, this check can be done "earlier" -- when the change is
> made, rather than when the whole transaction is committed.)

IMO, this whole feature is a bust if I have to wait until after I've
uploaded the changes to my 20-Mb Word Document to find out that my
commit is denied because someone has that file locked. (Ben, I know
you agree with me ... just wanted to publicly state this opinion.)

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Received on Fri May 21 18:35:10 2004