[log4perl-devel] Re: Bug while using Log::Dispatch::File

[Dave R. <au...@ur...>]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 Msc...@ao... wrote:

> Using Log::Dispatch::Screen instead doesn't show the problem.
> Dave, is there any limitations to Log::Dispatch::File you can think of?

Not that I know of.  This is the first I've heard of such a problem.

> My suspicion is that this is caused by our closures holding references to the
> Log::Dispatch::File object(s) which is/are using a "local"ized filehandle
> instead of a $fh scalar variable (open my $fh, ">blah") to keep track of the
> opened file.

Actually, the filehandle in Log::Dispatch::File is lexical.  The 'local'
bit in the code is just a Perl trick to get a filehandle into a scalar in
Perl 5.005 and earlier.

I can't imagine why closures would be a problem.

> I don't have an easy-to-reproduce test case yet, just to give you guys a
> heads-up and maybe you already know where to look for?

Without a test case I'm at a loss.  Log::Dispatch::File is barely 100
lines of code.  Not that I can't manage to fit a few bugs in there, but it
really is simple stuff so I don't see how this could be happening.


-dave

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