Bug#328303: iconv breaks on piped input, because it tries to read whole input into a buffer

[Chris Lightfoot <chris@ex-parrot.com>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22

iconv(1) tries to read in its whole input before doing
conversion. This is no good if you want to use it in a
pipe.

Example:

yes | iconv -f utf-8 -t iso-8859-1

expected result: ten lines of `y'
actual result: iconv runs out of memory

As a more serious example, consider

zcat dump-of-wikipedia.xml.gz | iconv -f utf-8 -t $charset | ...

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