I don't believe you will get anything except hex. The relevant code is in loggingevent.cpp:
> const LogString LoggingEvent::getCurrentThreadName() { > #if APR_HAS_THREADS > #if defined(_WIN32) > char result[20]; > DWORD threadId = GetCurrentThreadId(); > apr_snprintf(result, sizeof(result), LOG4CXX_WIN32_THREAD_FMTSPEC, > threadId); > #else > // apr_os_thread_t encoded in HEX takes needs as many characters > // as two times the size of the type, plus an additional null byte. > char result[sizeof(apr_os_thread_t) * 3 + 10]; > apr_os_thread_t threadId = apr_os_thread_current(); > apr_snprintf(result, sizeof(result), LOG4CXX_APR_THREAD_FMTSPEC, > (void*) &threadId); > #endif > LOG4CXX_DECODE_CHAR(str, (const char*) result); > return str; > #else > return LOG4CXX_STR("0x00000000"); > #endif > } Cory On 4/17/2011 10:19 AM, Alessandro Ferrucci wrote: > bump. > > Just wondering if anyone knows the answer to this question or knows > that in fact it is not possible to have it any other way. > > Thank you, > Alessandro Ferrucci > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Alessandro Ferrucci > <alessandroferru...@gmail.com <mailto:alessandroferru...@gmail.com>> > wrote: > > Hello, > I have the following log4cxx.properties file: > > log4j.rootLogger = DEBUG, CONSOLE, FILE > > log4j.appender.FILE=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender > log4j.appender.FILE.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout > log4j.appender.FILE.layout.ConversionPattern=%d [%t] %-5p %c - %m%n > log4j.appender.FILE.File=/home/ferru001/IslandAreas_Imaging/logs/log.txt > > log4j.appender.CONSOLE=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender > log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout > log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout.ConversionPattern=%-5p %d [%t] %c: %m%n > > I have a pthreads program and the thread IDs come out as > > INFO 2011-04-14 10:07:39,217 [0x427a8940] TIFFReader: Initialize > inbound TCP socket > INFO 2011-04-14 10:07:39,217 [0x43baa940] TIFFReader: STARTED THREAD > INFO 2011-04-14 10:07:39,217 [0x431a9940] TIFFReader: STARTED > THREAD worker1 > INFO 2011-04-14 10:07:39,218 [0x43baa940] TIFFReader: WAITING FOR > NEXT BATCH... > > I start the threads as > > if( ( returnVal = pthread_create(&t, NULL, register_function, > (void*)threadname.c_str() ))!=0) > { > LOG4CXX_ERROR( logger, "pthread_create:Error > "<<returnVal<<"("<<errno<<")" ); > } > > Is there any way for the thread ID value in the log files to have > a more human readable value? > > -- > Signed, > Alessandro Ferrucci > > > > > -- > Signed, > Alessandro Ferrucci