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

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Message-ID: <54D24CA5.6080603@ahsoftware.de>
Date:	Wed, 04 Feb 2015 17:45:25 +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 17:25 schrieb Lukáš Czerner:
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, Alexander Holler wrote:

>> 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.
>

Ok, I'm guilty.

May I ask if there's somewhere a feature request tracker which doesn't 
cruzify someone because he suggest a (maybe wrong) solution and tries to 
show that this might work with some prelimary, broken, silly, quick and 
dirty patches?


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