- From: Brian Korver <briank@xythos.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 11:35:36 -0800
- To: WebDAV <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 06:27 AM, Clemm, Geoff wrote: > > From: Brian Korver [mailto:briank@xythos.com] > > Operations not Atomic > > None of the operations specified should be required > to be atomic. I'd prefer SHOULD NOT myself. This is > especially true for any operation that involves deleting > collections. > > Atomic operations are one of the primary purposes of the > binding protocol. A server that cannot maintain atomic > MOVE/DELETE/BIND operations is not capable of supporting > the bind protocol. Geoff, I disagree strongly. Nothing should be stated to prohibit atomic operations, but the spec should leave this decision up to implementors. There can be perfectly valid reasons why a server vendor might want to provide normal filesystem semantics to users. -brian briank@xythos.com
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