RE: v6: 12.9 lockdiscovery

Caught by the spam filter.

- Jim

-----Original Message-----
From:	Roland Grassmann [SMTP:grassmann@itwm-trier.fhg.de]
Sent:	Thursday, February 05, 1998 12:23 AM
To:	Yaron Goland
Cc:	'howard.s.modell@boeing.com'; w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Subject:	[Spam?] RE: v6: 12.9 lockdiscovery

Yaron Goland writes:
 > The provisions is that lock discovery returns all outstanding locks, who
 > owns them, and what the lock tokens are. Thus a program that finds it is
 > denied access because of a lock can perform discovery and find out that it
 > is the one with the lock.
 > 

Hi,

maybe this is a slightly different issue, but shouldn't users also be
able to request a listing of all locks owned by them, not only all
locks pretaining to a specific resource.

If, for example user A has locked resources X and Y and forgot all
about having locked X, shouldn't he be able to ask for a list of all
ressources he locked. This would enable him to release X (or carry on
working on it)?

As far as I understand the current mechanism it only allows A to ask
for a list of all users having locked Y. If he doesn't know -- or
remember -- that checking for locks on X would be a good idea for him,
he won't be able to find out, would he?

Greetings from Germany

roland


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Received on Thursday, 5 February 1998 14:22:42 UTC