For the purposes of discussion, attached is a patch which changes the mode
which setup gives /var/log from 1777 to 0777.
See this thread [1] for why I think I want to do this.
I haven't thought at all about the security implications of this change at all.
I have observed that /var/log has mode 0755 on a couple of linux systems I've
looked at.
It looks like the setting of mode 1777 was added by Corrina on 2008-08-20, I'm
guessing as part of the Cygwin 1.7 changes.
[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2010-08/msg00090.html
Index: install.cc
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diff -r2.96 install.cc
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< { "/var/log", 01777 },
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> { "/var/log", 0777 },
Index: localdir.cc
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RCS file: /cvs/cygwin-apps/setup/localdir.cc,v
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< mkdir_p (1, cygpath ("/var/log").c_str (), 01777);
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> mkdir_p (1, cygpath ("/var/log").c_str (), 0777);
