Request for swapcontext and getcontext to be ported to our libc

[Petr Janda]

This is an offer to anyone by the way...

Petr Janda wrote:
How much would you like me to pay you? Honest, give me estimate on how 
long this is going to take. If price is good, id also hire someone to 
add NSS support.

Cheers,
Petr
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
Petr Janda wrote:
Hi,
Could someone please port these from FreeBSD or NetBSD? Without them 
it seem is impossible to install powerdns-recusor.

Can anyone do it in their spare time please?
As I keep saying, open source usually doesn't work this way.  This is 
how I see open source working:

(a) you need something, you do it
(b) you need something, you nag about it
(c) you need something, you offer to pay for it (code bounty), 
somebody takes it and does it for you

so, what we can see, (b) doesn't help if nobody matches (a) nor (c).  
of course you could have success by doing (b) so long until somebody 
either shows enough mercy and does it or gets interested himself and 
goes to (a).  so if you *really* want something, (a) and (c) are the 
fastest ways.  if your abilities do not match (a), you have to match 
(c).  it's simple as that.  people are volunteering and (as you 
observed correctly) doing stuff in their spare time.  of course this 
leads to the result that people only actually do what they like to do 
and this does not necessarily match what *other* people would like 
them to do.  offering money can overcome this problem.  i think this 
is a fair model where everybody can contribute, either by writing 
code ((a)) or by supporting somebody who writes code ((c)).

cheers
  simon
ps: i think *context does not have to be a kernel function like in 
freebsd, but i'd like to hear more opinions on that