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Deletions #20

Open adferguson opened 12 years ago

adferguson commented 12 years ago

Delete users, delete shares, delete accepted requests, ...

adferguson commented 12 years ago

When a switch or a network link goes down, this can cause an "involuntary" policy deletion.

How should we notify users of such involuntary deletions (broken promises). Call-backs are one method. Rodrigo suggested we have a "mailbox" for each request, so clients can check the status of their request in the mailbox (and perhaps discover that the request has been dropped due to network failure). This is analogous to file handles in a traditional OS.