On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:26:54 -0700, Andy Bierman
<ietf(_at_)andybierman(_dot_)com> said:
AB> discard-changes only works because authorization is ignored,
AB> otherwise the agent would be deadlocked.
Huh???? why would discard-changes be authorization ignorant??? That's
just as unsafe (unless you're only discarding your own changes).
AB> Only the global lock operation defined in RFC 4741
AB> can prevent this problem.
The global lock has different issues.
The problem isn't with the locking. Locking, and partial locking are
good. It's with the global-level commit operation.
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Wes Hardaker
Cobham Analytic Solutions
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