Re: filexfer-07

[Derek Fawcus <dfawcus%cisco.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:30:34PM -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> 
> I am still a little concerned about the specification of only mandatory 
> locking, when there are common server platforms on which mandatory locking 
> is used infrequently, if at all, while advisory locking is commonplace.

Agreed.

It also seems rather pointless to mandate mandatory locking.  Some unices
do not support it at all.  Which means if they support the protocol locking
commands,  they'll simply be lying about the ability of the lock to exclude
local (non SFTP) access.

However (depending upon the use) this may actually be valid.  I do tend to
prefer advisory lock,  simply because then I can peek under the covers to
check what running apps are doing.

DF