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Hi Fabrizio, I think we all agree on that. The only "nit" is that rename will have two opaque parameters that someone will need to make sense of. Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fabrizio Furano" <[log in to unmask]> To: "Andrew Hanushevsky" <[log in to unmask]> Cc: "Andreas Joachim Peters" <[log in to unmask]>; "Derek Feichtinger" <[log in to unmask]>; "Fons Rademakers" <[log in to unmask]>; "xrootd mailing list" <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 7:24 AM Subject: Re: olbd fails to learn when a file disappears from a leaf node, but another copy still exists > Hi, > > I argue from this that the opaque info passed e.g. through xrdcp must be > passed for any request containing a filename, like Stat or Dirlist. Am I > right? > > Fabrizio > > Andrew Hanushevsky wrote: >> Hi Andreas, >> >> OK, so it would appear that we will need to extract out the information >> after the "?" and pass that as a separate parameter. I do that, instead >> of >> passing the complete url, so as to not re-implement searching for the >> opaque information in every function. The called function, hoewver, is >> responsible for making sense of the opaque information. >> >> That does mean changing most file system calls to include the opaque >> parameter. That also solves the olbd issue in a unified way. >> >> Do we all agree to go that route? >> >> Andy >> >> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Andreas Joachim Peters wrote: >> >> >>>As it is, it is absolutely fine for me. I would prefer, that the complete >>>URL is always passed to any function and the function has to extract the >>>part >>>it needs. But as it is, it works perfectly for us. >>> >>>I use the following syntax: >>> >>> root://server.domain:port/<lfn>?&authz=<authorization block> >>> >>>Because even for a stat command it can be useful, that you can specify >>>some environment variable like the stagepool the file is on. >>> >>>Cheers Andreas. >>> >>> >