Re: [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-dusseault-http-patch-09.txt]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:03:59 +1200, Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>
wrote:

> 
> right - in other words, the only way to guarantee security on the
> patch is to LOCK, in which case why even bother trying to solve race 
> conditions around the PATCH command.  The race condition if anywhere
> is around who gets the LOCK first...:)
> 

Careful, though -- you still have to deal with timing locks out, and
dealing with the situation where somebody went LOCK, GET, edit,
timeout (implied UNLOCK), PATCH -- which leads to the same situation of
"Hey, buster -- you lose your work because you didn't get back to us in
a timely manner."

-- 
Travis