[systemd-devel] configurable IDN flags usage in getnameinfo()

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:37 PM, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net
> wrote:

> On Tue, 13.06.17 03:11, Waldemar Brodkorb (wbx at openadk.org) wrote:
>
> > Another option might be to add a new configure option to
> > control the IDN usage in systemd. You already have a lot of
> > fine granular options to configure systemd, another would'nt harm.
>
> While I am not a fan of the proliferation of config options I think
> this one would probably be OK.
>
> Having an option for disabling all IDN support should be OK.
>
> > I am not asking to add any C library specific workaround, but for
> > a little portability/configurability with nearly no costs.
> >
> > Sure I could add libidn to uClibc-ng like GNU C library to add
> > the missing IDN functionality, but this would add nearly 1 megabyte
> > of code, which isn't a nice option for embedded Linux people.
> > du -chs libidn/
> > 956K    libidn/
> > 956K    total
>
> I wonder if there's really a good reason why the IDN stuff needs to be
> that large... The algorithms behind it appear to be relatively simple,
> no? Maybe I am missing something, but maybe a nice way out would be to
> implement the algorithms in a more minimal fashion...
>

AFAIK most of it is Unicode data (in redundant textual format), not code.

(Also, libidna is for IDNA2003. The successor, libidn2 for IDNA2008, seems
to result in a .so that's only half the size of libidn.)

-- 
Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com>
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