Re: Request for swapcontext and getcontext to be ported to our libc

[Petr Janda <elekktretterr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Matt,
Sweet as. How much do you charge per hour?

Petr

Matt Emmerton wrote:
> > Noone? Im willing to pay up to $150 AUD ($110 USD, approx 80-90 euro)
> > for those couple of functions + ensuring that PowerDNS-Recursor works
> > after that. Please consider an estimate of how long its going to take
> > and let me know(i suppose it might take only like 30 mins for some of
> > you). Let me know your hourly charge. However keep in mind that i will
> > always double check with other devs that im not being ripped off(not
> > that im cheap, but i know you understand i dont do C thus i cant say how
> > long its going to take...parents taught me to always be careful with
> > money and all)
> >     
>
> I've started working on this, using the FreeBSD implementation as a first
> cut for DFly.
>
> It was asked earlier on in the thread why FreeBSD used syscalls for this -- 
> it's best to look at the commit comments for rev 1.9 of ucontext.h for their
> reasons -- 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/include/ucontext.h
>
> I'll be following the FreeBSD lead for the first cut; I'll see what we can
> do to improve on this in our world as a follow-on.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Matt Emmerton
>
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