- From: Lisa Dusseault <lisa@xythos.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 19:48:59 -0800
- To: "'WebDAV'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
> > 2518 correctly states that MOVE (and COPY) also may involve > > a DELETE with "Depth: infinity" operation in the case of > > overwrite. > It supports that. What you're possibly refering to is the fact that > 2518 let's the DELETE on a collection to delete some of the > children and abort before removing the colection itself and without > backing out what it did. In the Bind Spec, there is no requirement > to unbind those child resources and in many cases you definitely > don't want to do that. You only have to unbind the collection. > There is no partial DELETE. You just have to unmap that collection. > Whether that reclaims resources is a different matter. Would you be able to do that -- unmap a collection -- even if one of its children were locked? The person with the lock would then lose it and their resource, right? If on the other hand, you can't unmap a collection until all its children are unlocked, then you have a serious problem supporting that atomically on a filesystem. For example, by the time IIS 5.0 checks all the children of a collection to see if they're locked, one of them might have just gotten a new lock. Lisa
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