Re: resolving 057_LOCK_SEMANTICS

Geoffrey M Clemm wrote:
> 
> This is all fine with me, except I'd like to delete the "MAY"
> clause from the last sentence in the update to (c).
> Weakening this to a SHOULD is as far as we should go.
> Explicitly adding in the MAY sentence looks too much like
> encouragement to do the wrong thing.

Agreed. Saying

"Servers SHOULD do x, but MAY do not(x)"

isn't very useful.


Julian

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Received on Friday, 18 June 2004 08:17:44 UTC