User mounts could not use character conversions (libkiconv is just for roots)

R. Imura imura at ryu16.org
Wed Dec 3 08:41:19 PST 2003


On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:08:52PM +0600, Boris Popov wrote:
> 	Probably it is not a good idea to allow users to load kernel iconv
> tables because one can waste a lot of memory by loading of all possible
> conversion schemes.  The better solution is to add some kind of preload
> ability which could be used on startup.

I agree with this.

- R. Imura


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