[Bug 49867] Support /var/log

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49867

Olivier F. R. Dierick <o.dierick at piezo-forte.be> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |INVALID
                 CC|                            |o.dierick at piezo-forte.be

--- Comment #11 from Olivier F. R. Dierick <o.dierick at piezo-forte.be> ---
Hello,

(In reply to N from comment #10)
> Bugs and performance issues are common and you need to "enable" them
> manually?

Wine has default output that doesn't need to be enabled.
Non-default debugging channels must be enabled manually because they have an
impact on performance that is undesirable for normal usage.

Additionally to what Zebediah Figura said, writing in /var/log requires root
permission by default on most systems.
Wine MUST NOT run as root, so writing to /var/log would require setting up
complex file access to work around it.
That fill access setup operation itself requires administrative privileges so
it would have to be performed externally anyway (manually or at the packaging
level, which is outside the scope of Wine).
That makes it impossible to support /var/log from inside Wine.

Marking invalid.

Regards.

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