Re: [PATCH] fs/locks.c fcntl_setlease did not check if a file was opened for writing before granting a read lease

[Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>]

Joseph D. Wagner wrote:
> Well, dang it all.  Why didn't they guy who implemented leasing in the first 
> place bother to do it right the first time?
>
> I don't have the time or technical expertise in kernel development to go 
> through all that.  Somebody else is going to have to pick up his slack.

This isn't a commercial project with teams picking up "slack".  It's
mostly volunteers, using their private time as they see fit.  Progress
is made in pieces, nobody is obliged to "finish" anything, and people
contribute incomplete features so that someone else with time, energy
and inclination might complete them.

Being rude is inappropriate.  Words like "didn't bother" and "slack"
are offensive in this context, much like calling someone who works 100
hours a week "a lazy programmer" because they'd need 200 hours to do
what you think they should have done is offensive.

-- Jamie