- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 09:23:11 +0200
- To: Lisa Dusseault <lisa@osafoundation.org>
- CC: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org, Brian Korver <briank@xythos.com>
Lisa Dusseault wrote: > On Sep 2, 2004, at 1:21 PM, Julian Reschke wrote: > >> >> For instance, MacOSX maps HTTP status codes to Unix error codes (it's >> a filesystem mapper). Unix distinguishes between "no space left on >> device" and "quota exceeded". The protocol should allow the client to >> distinguish both cases. > > > I disagree. The chances that a single system has both apply in a > meaningful way, and that the client needs to do both, and that the > client has a way to display both, are pretty small. The same mechanism > can handle either case but not both at once. Correct. So are you saying that (i) a system can't have both quotas and disk limits or (ii) that we should have two different mechanisms? Best regards, Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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