This is starting to sound like we need a full-blown factory/context/logger
implementation of StatusLogger.


On 4 May 2014 12:46, Ralph Goers <rgo...@apache.org> wrote:

> Also, that doesn't solve the case Remko mentioned of multiple web apps
> writing to a single file.
>
> Ralph
>
> On May 4, 2014, at 9:53 AM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So how about adding a check at construction checking against System.out
> and System.err? Really, once you start messing with those streams, you
> can't be sure they'll ever be closed until the JVM stops or you manually
> close it.
>
>
> On 4 May 2014 09:36, Ralph Goers <rgo...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> I see two choices here - maintain a use count or just let the OS close
>> the files.
>>
>> The second would be pretty easy to do once we move the web stuff to its
>> own module as it can add a property that the console Appender would look
>> for.
>>
>> The first option is probably better if it could be made to work properly.
>>
>> Ralph
>>
>> On May 4, 2014, at 6:38 AM, Bruce Brouwer <bruce.brou...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> This is what I was starting to investigate with LOG4J2-609.
>>
>> I don't think this is quite there yet. For one, in
>> StatusConsoleListener.close(), System.out and System.err can change over
>> time, so doing the != check might still close something that at one time
>> was System.out but no longer is.
>>
>> Also, a StatusConsoleListener is shared among different JSONConfiguration
>> and XMLConfiguration instances (think about multiple WARs in a Tomcat
>> instance where log4j is in Tomcat's shared lib directory). If we undeployed
>> one of those WARs, it would shutdown the StatusConsoleListener that was
>> shared with the other WAR deployments.
>>
>> Also think about where some of these WARs wanted to use System.out and
>> others want to use a log file for status logging. Because of the way these
>> shared loggers are found, only the first StatusConsoleListener registered
>> would actually take effect. So sometimes when you start Tomcat, status logs
>> go to System.out, other times they go to a log file. I'd hate having to
>> debug that one if I didn't know about this issue.
>>
>> I have an idea of how to address this, but it unfortunately isn't as
>> simple as closing the StatusConsoleListener.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hooray, we've finally figured out the bug. :)
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3 May 2014 19:49, Remko Popma <remko.po...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just updated from SVN and all tests now pass.
>>>> The build works now. Thanks!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I just fixed it in r1592291 haha
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 3 May 2014 17:54, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes. It cause them to close. Anything written to System.out or
>>>>>> System.err will fail.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On May 3, 2014, at 3:51 PM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does closing them do anything?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 3 May 2014 17:10, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Perhaps we need a StatusFileListerner when writing to a file?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ralph
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On May 3, 2014, at 3:03 PM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> System.out or System.err should never be closed.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ralph
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On May 3, 2014, at 10:59 AM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've implemented Closeable on StatusListener in r1592258. Please try
>>>>>>> out the unit tests again and let me know if this solves the issue on
>>>>>>> Windows.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 3 May 2014 12:30, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I think this is actually a bug. StatusListener should implement
>>>>>>>> Closeable, and when the listeners are cleared, it should loop through 
>>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>> close them before clearing the list of listeners. Otherwise, files can 
>>>>>>>> stay
>>>>>>>> opened and Windows still hasn't figured out how to handle that.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 3 May 2014 11:22, Remko Popma <remko.po...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks, commenting out that test to verify my changes was exactly
>>>>>>>>> what I was doing now... :-)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Ralph Goers <
>>>>>>>>> ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Oh, and if you are trying to do some work just comment out the
>>>>>>>>>> @Test of the failing test - but don’t commit that.
>>>>>>>>>> Ralph
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On May 3, 2014, at 9:19 AM, Ralph Goers <
>>>>>>>>>> ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> That happens because the file is still being referenced by
>>>>>>>>>> something when it is trying to delete it.  It should be because the 
>>>>>>>>>> file is
>>>>>>>>>> open but I recall reading that Windows sometimes holds on to file
>>>>>>>>>> references longer than it should.  This was probably caused by the 
>>>>>>>>>> changes
>>>>>>>>>> Matt made to the unit test framework a month or so ago.  I will 
>>>>>>>>>> bring up my
>>>>>>>>>> Windows VM and take a look at it this afternoon.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Ralph
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On May 3, 2014, at 8:58 AM, Remko Popma <remko.po...@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Yes, windows 7.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Ralph Goers <
>>>>>>>>>> ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> FileOutputTest was failing for me last week and I thought I
>>>>>>>>>>> fixed it. But it was failing because the file was empty, not 
>>>>>>>>>>> because it
>>>>>>>>>>> couldn’t be deleted. I guess you must be running on Windows?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Ralph
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On May 3, 2014, at 8:44 AM, Remko Popma <remko.po...@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> > When I run mvn clean install, I get this problem:
>>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>>> > Failed tests:
>>>>>>>>>>> >   FileOutputTest.testConfig Could not delete
>>>>>>>>>>> target\status.log, last modifed 14/05/04 0:27
>>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>>> > FileOutputTest has a "CleanFiles" rule that seems to fail:
>>>>>>>>>>> >     public RuleChain rules = RuleChain.outerRule(new
>>>>>>>>>>> CleanFiles(STATUS_LOG)).around(new InitialLoggerContext(CONFIG));
>>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>>> > How do I fix this?
>>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>>> > Remko
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>
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