Re: Fonts for console/fb for various locales: a proposal

Thor Lancelot Simon <[email protected]> Sun, 29 Sep 2019 18:02:14 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.userlevel,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.security
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 02:39:19PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> 4. Rasterizing (c). This is the whole purpose of METAFONT. METAFONT is a
> rasterizer.

Rasterization of vector fonts by privileged code has been a major source
of security holes in other operating systems.  Does the very limited
benefit really justify the risk?

Thor