[ldapext] Re: Gen-Art Review: <draft-zeilenga-ldap-incr-01.txt>

Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com> Fri, 08 July 2005 12:41 UTC

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Subject: [ldapext] Re: Gen-Art Review: <draft-zeilenga-ldap-incr-01.txt>
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john.loughney@nokia.com wrote:
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> 
> One line summary: This document is not ready for publication as a Informational
> publication.  More text on how to deal with race conditions need to be added.

John, as it happens, I queried Kurt about atomicity and was satisfied by his
response that LDAP intrinsically provides the required atomicity. That is kind
of basic in transaction processing, so I don't think it needs spelling out
in terms of race conditions.

    Brian


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