RE: Operations not Atomic (was: bind draft issues)

> 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


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