On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 15:49 -0600, DieselMachine wrote: > Can you please give more detailed explanation how it works and why it > couldn't be fixed? I don't believe that there is no way to synchronize > log entry writes. :) > If you've got more than one thread writing to the same file there's nothing to stop their output being interleaved. There are three ways to prevent that: - associate a mutex (lock) with the file and change all writing threads so that they can only write if they have the mutex. If they haven't, they'll have to wait until they get it. - use a queue. Writers put logging output on the queue and a single log writer thread pulls messages off the queue and writes them to the log file. The queue will still need a mutex to stop writers from stamping all over the queue but, since the queue is in-memory, the waits, when they occur, will be very short. - give each thread its own log file, though that will make debugging harder because you'll have to correlate several files and you'll need to timestamp every log message to do that. Martin
