[log4perl-devel] logging to a file and forking

[Viner, D. <dv...@ya...>]

Hi,
    Sorry for this newbie question.  I looked at the docs, but I couldn't
find an answer.  I want to use a file-based logger, like Log::Dispatch::File
or something similar, and have a logger object initialized in a parent
process.  When the parent forks a child, that child process will have a copy
of the logger object.  Can I safely use that duplicate logger object in the
child?  Or will that causes messages from the parent and child to
interleave?  

    I'm not concerned about mixing complete messages from child and parent
like this:
	parent > msg1
	child > msg2
But, what really concerns me is the interleaving of messages in the same
line like this:
	parchild > ent > msmsg1g2

Is there protection against this?  Or should the forked child call
Log::Log4perl->reset(); Log::Log4perl->init() to get a seperate logger
object?

thanks again.

dave viner

p.s. - i realize this question is similar to the question posed in the
Apache::Reload email, but I wanted to clarify for my application (which
doesn't use apache or mod_perl).