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Re: [Shoal-Users] Ceasing Leadership

From: Shreedhar Ganapathy <Shreedhar.Ganapathy_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:20:48 -0800

In a sense this exists as a forcible takeover API thereby allowing an
existing leader to relinquish its leader role.
I would be very interested in your use case though as it will help
make our documentation on intended uses for such a thing more clear.

Sent from my phone

On Feb 13, 2008, at 7:14 AM, Shreedhar Ganapathy <Shreedhar.Ganapathy_at_Sun.COM
> wrote:

> That's not something we found a need for. So it does not exist
> today. Is there use case where this would be useful?
> Thanks
> Shreedhar
>
> Sent from my phone
>
> On Feb 13, 2008, at 7:08 AM, Alireza Farhoush <alireza_at_tibco.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Can a member relinquish its role as a leader without leaving its
>> group (assuming that there are more that one member of course)?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Alireza
>