Re: Draft Guarded Field document

[Havard Eidnes <]

> Actually, what the document says (maybe not too clear) is that when
> you send in an object that has guarded attributes, and you have
> defined them different than what the files say, the object WILL be
> updated, BUT all guarded attributes will be reset to their "guarded"
> value.

Ok, sounds reasonable.  Let me suggest a change (addition to the last part
of the paragraph) to the text along the lines of:

If an update is sent to the database software using another  mechan-
ism  (i.e. mail to auto-dbm@localhost) that contains a guarded attri-
bute, this will not be allowed to change the guarded  attribute.  If
the  value  of  the  attribute  is  the  same  as  what is currently
registered in the database then no warnings will be given.  However,
if  the update contains a value for a guarded attribute that is dif-
ferent to that registered in the database, a warning will be sent to
the  originator  and the guarded value will  remain  unchanged.  Any
changes  of other (unguarded) fields  in the update  will be checked
for  syntactic correctness  and if they pass  will go through to the
database irrespective of any conflicts for the guarded fields.


- Havard