- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 19:47:32 -0400
- To: ejw@ics.uci.edu, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
At 15:22 5/4/99 -0700, Jim Whitehead wrote: >Locks don't help you *detect* the lost update problem, they help you >*prevent* the lost update problem. Locks make it more difficult for lost >updates to occur, but they don't help a client detect lost updates. You'll >still use If-Match with Etags to do lost update detection. hi Jim, yes, that was my conclusion as well - may cause problems if the content is not mergeable or you want to support automated update procedures without human intervention. Henrik -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/People/Frystyk
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