root of a lock, was HOW_TO_IDENTIFY_LOCK_OWNER from Jason Crawford on 2002-01-14 (w3c-dist-auth@w3.org from January to March 2002) (original) (raw)

In addition to Geoff's answer: If you are an administrator trying to unlock a resource obtained by someone else, you have to be able to figure out which resource to unlock. You can't unlock an internal member of a collection that's locked by a depth-inifinity lock without knowing which collection was actually locked.

CAN'T?

Then you can decide whether unlocking that is the right thing to do.

I think this is what Geoff was saying. He's saying it is probably irresponsible to unlock a set of resources without knowing what resources actually will become unlocked.

But apparently before this sentence you are saying something different than Geoff. Please explain.

Received on Monday, 14 January 2002 15:21:40 UTC