- From: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 13:18:36 -0700
- To: "'-=jack=-'" <jack@twaxx.twaxx.com>, "'Del Jensen'" <dcjensen@novell.com>, mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch, Dylan Barrell <dbarrell@opentext.ch>
- Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Before I go off on a rant, what systems currently allow you to retain a lock when you move a file? Yaron > -----Original Message----- > From: -=jack=- [SMTP:jack@twaxx.twaxx.com] > Sent: Monday, September 01, 1997 9:43 AM > To: 'Del Jensen'; mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch; Yaron Goland; Dylan Barrell > Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org > Subject: Re: Locks, reservations, copies and moves > > Th behaviour of removing a lock when moving a resource is bound to > result in > overwrite conflicts due to locks being inadvertantly lost through some > structural re-organisation. This will also require that only the owner > of the > lock be able to move the resource which is unnecessarily restrictive > in a > shared authoring environment where one individual might be responsible > for > content and another for structure. > -------- > I would say that a lock must be retained when a resource is moved. > This > is something of a grey area WRT locks and the prevention of > overwriting of > content. The main purpose of the lock is to maintain the consistency > of > content when one author out of potentially many is modifying the > content. > This prevention of other authors modifying the content must be > maintained > whether or not an administrator decides to move the entire resource to > some > other location. Note that this isn't dangerous to the content, unless > the > lock is NOT maintained. I would argue that the lock should simply be > moved with the resource, which allows administrators the freedom to do > their jobs without interfering with the maintenance of the consistency > of > content, which is the job the lock does for multiple authors. > > -=jack=- > > (This text composed by voice) > > > --
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