[jboss-as7-dev] Logging Subsystem Changes

[David M. Lloyd]

So there are some valid problems raised here.  To give some background, 
the problem that is being addressed is that changes to logging 
configuration are non-atomic, basically meaning that it is common to get 
duplicate or missing log messages when switching between log files; also 
having two log files is kind of silly.

The perfect solution would have the following characteristics:

1) Only one log file from startup to shutdown
2) Only one place to configure logging (i.e. the logging subsystem)
3) Logging changes are atomic

This solution exhibits #1 & #2 (but only if the logging config or the 
server environment hasn't changed significantly between shutdown and 
startup) but not #3 (still impossible with the current code base).  The 
existing code does not meet any of these three characteristics.

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- DML