Re: Revised Proposal: Improved locking implementation for fsfs

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

>
> On Jan 9, 2005, at 2:37 PM, Branko Čibej wrote:
>
>>
>> BTW, can you lock several files with a single DAV request?
>>
>>
>
> I don't think so. The LOCK request is of the form
>
> LOCK URI
> [headers, including authn]
>
> [body contains lock comment and lock type]
>
>
> Because LOCK only works on a single URI, the only way to "lock many
> things" is to lock a whole collection. Which we don't support.

But does the URI have to identify a file (or collection), or can it be a
synthetic beastie that identifies a list of resources? In other words,
is DAV flexible enough to let you define a synthetic collection that
exists only for the lifetime of one request?

-- Brane

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@subversion.tigris.org
Received on Mon Jan 10 06:07:37 2005