On Nov 12 17:19, Warren Young wrote: > On Nov 12, 2014, at 3:43 PM, Andrew DeFaria <and...@defaria.com> > wrote: > > > On 11/12/2014 2:16 PM, Warren Young wrote: > >>> What local changes/installations get lost? > >> > >> Currently, if you nuke a default installation into c:\cygwin, you > >> lose /home, /etc, /var and /usr/local, all of which contain user > >> files and/or local system configuration. > > > > Technically user files can exist anywhere in the file system > > All the more reason to move to a world where it’s possible to start > securing /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /usr/share… so that only setup.exe can > write to it. > > I’m not advocating that step so early, but maybe if this breakup does > happen, a few years later setup.exe can start applying some strong > ACLs to files it writes.
??? What "strong" ACLs? Setup creates the files with standard POSIX permissions. Which permissions are too open from your POV? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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