[305] in Athena Bugs
"inc" suggestion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey I. Schiller)
Mon May 2 17:37:47 1988
Date: Mon, 2 May 88 17:14:12 EDT
From: Jeffrey I. Schiller <jis@BITSY.MIT.EDU>
To: Saltzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, athena-ws@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: Jerome H. Saltzer's message of Mon, 2 May 88 15:04:02 EDT <8805021904.AA00410@HERACLES.MIT.EDU>
From a technical standpoint there is no concept in the Post
Office of putting a message back, HOWEVER, the "retrieve" and "delete"
operations are distinct. Therefore the algorithm should be: 1) Read a
message. 2) Write the message to users locker. 3) Verify that message
was written successfully. 4) Delete the message off the Post Office.
-Jeff
