>> 	so, remaining issue is:
>> 	(a) whether it is okay to call dlopen() from within libc
>> 	if it is not okay, that's fine with me too.  we need to modify
>> 	lib/libc/locale/setrunelocale.c and recompile libc when we see a
>How big is the multibyte encoding stuff ? If it's few KB, I think
>it's not worth the efford to put it to separate shared object.

-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   238640 Jan 21 16:21 ifconfig.withdllocale
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  itojun  251580 Jan 22 08:29 ifconfig.withstaticlocale

	around 13K difference on i386 (i hope i'm doing a sane comparison).

itojun