Re: [PATCH 1/5] WIP: Add syscall unlinkat_s (currently x86* only)

[Lukáš Czerner]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, Alexander Holler wrote:

> Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 17:12:52 +0100
> From: Alexander Holler <holler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: LukÃÅ Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>,
>     Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>,
>     Linux-Fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>     Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>     Linux API <linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] WIP: Add syscall unlinkat_s (currently x86* only)
> 
> Am 04.02.2015 um 15:52 schrieb LukÃÅ 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.