linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] WIP: Add syscall unlinkat

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1502041724180.26766@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 4 Feb 2015 17:25:31 +0100 (CET)
From:	Lukáš Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
To:	Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>
cc:	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Linux-Fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] WIP: Add syscall unlinkat_s (currently x86* only)

On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, Alexander Holler wrote:

> Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 17:12:52 +0100
> From: Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>
> To: Lukáš Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
>     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
>     Linux-Fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
>     Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
>     Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] WIP: Add syscall unlinkat_s (currently x86* only)
> 
> Am 04.02.2015 um 15:52 schrieb Lukáš Czerner:
> > On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, Alexander Holler wrote:
> 
> >> I'm happy for all the feedback. But it doesn't help me. I'm not going to spend
> >> the necessary time unpaid.
> > 
> > Right, you'd much rather have someone else to spend the time on your
> > request unpaid. That's understandable, but unreasonable. You want
> > it, implement it, or pay someone else to do it for you.
> 
> Maybe you should attach a big fat red warning to the kernels bugzilla
> that filing a bug means either to fix it yourself or pay somone to do that.
> 
> I've never demanded that someone else fixes it.
> 
> I've just explained a problem.
> 
> Unbelievable how someone could do such without paying someone else to
> fix it or by fixing it themself ...

It's not a bug, you're requesting a feature.