On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:38:05PM +0100, Rudolf Cejka wrote: > > I have found, that user mounts using libkiconv.so (msdosfs, cd9660, ...) > could not use character code conversions, beause writing to sysctl > kern.iconv.add is allowed just for root. Personally, I have created > small patch, which allows to change kern.iconv.add to anybody, so it does > work for me. Does anybody know, if there are security drawbacks and if > it can or can not be commited? 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. -- Boris Popov http://rbp.euro.ruReceived on Tue Dec 02 2003 - 21:09:05 UTC
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