File permissions on FileAppender

[Curt Arnold]

There has been a thread on log4php-dev (http://marc.info/?l=log4php- 
dev&m=118520958818276&w=2) that I'd like to get an opinion from the  
log4net developers.  Basically, the user wishes to allow multiple  
user accounts to be able to write to the same log file and they are  
being prevented since the default file permissions set when the first  
user creates the log file prevents the second user from writing to  
it.  The request was to add a umask or chmod configuration option to  
FileAppender.

Aside from the point, that simultaneous access to a common log file  
is unsupported and unreliable in log4j and log4cxx (can't speak for  
log4net and log4php), are there any facilities in log4net for  
controlling the file permissions.  I didn't see any from reviewing  
the log4net code, but I assume that one solution would be to specify  
a <securityContext> for the FileAppender to use a common user.

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