Subject: Re: bin/12017: how to enable multibyte locale (and problem around it)
To: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/25/2001 14:48:53
[ On Thursday, January 25, 2001 at 15:46:47 (+0900), Noriyuki Soda wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: bin/12017: how to enable multibyte locale (and problem around it)
>
> > That's not good enough.  No code must ever be loadable into a process
> > started from a static binary.  That's what the word "static" means!  ;-)
> 
> You should not use NetBSD kernel, then.
> NetBSD kernel can load LKM, although there is a knob to disable it.

Exactly.  My kernels cannot, and never have been able to, load LKMs.

> You should not use XFree86, too.
> XFree86 Xserver can load its own module.

I don't, except on private, isolated, test machines and workstations.

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