Re: Is it safe to use log4cxx in multi-threaded environement?

So by not requesting another instance of logger, do you mean I should use global variable in the main thread dnd and "extern" in worker threads?

 

jml 

Curt Arnold <carnold@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A logger is should be thread-safe and can be used from multiple 
> threads. You do not need to request a logger for each thread. If you 
> do, you will just get multiple references to the same logger object.
>
> The things you cannot do (without using socket listener) is to write 
> have two appenders write to the same file or have two instances of 
> log4cxx write to the same file.
>
>
> On Dec 6, 2004, at 11:44 AM, Jeff Lynn wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >  
> > Is is safe to log to the same log file from multiple worker threads 
> > with each thread calling the following to get a new logger instance:
> >  
> > LoggerPtr logger = Logger::getLogger("Test1");
> >  
> > whereas the main thread configured the logger as:
> >  
> >
>  ; PropertyConfigurator::configure("log4cxx.properties");
> >  
> > I understand I can
>  use the socket listener for multi-processes and 
> > multi-server environment but just wonder if it is safe if my app only 
> > runs in a single server with multiple worker threads.
> >  
> > Thanks!

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