- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 23:09:08 +0100
- To: "Brian Korver" <briank@xythos.com>, "WebDAV" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
> From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org > [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Brian Korver > Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 8:36 PM > To: WebDAV > Subject: Re: Operations not Atomic (was: bind draft issues) > > > > 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, I can follow for DELETE (see separate mail), but I'm at a loss about how MOVE and BIND can be non-atomic. Could you please explain? Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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