[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (LOGMGR-117) Fork Log4J ConosleAppender to simply handling of calls to System.out

[Lin Gao (JIRA)]

     [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/LOGMGR-117?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Lin Gao reassigned LOGMGR-117:
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    Assignee: Lin Gao  (was: James Perkins)


> Fork Log4J ConosleAppender to simply handling of calls to System.out
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>                 Key: LOGMGR-117
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/LOGMGR-117
>             Project: JBoss Log Manager
>          Issue Type: Enhancement
>            Reporter: Kyle Lape
>            Assignee: Lin Gao
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> While the use of {{ConsoleAppender}} in Log4J application logging configurations is discouraged, JBoss could probably do a better job of managing its use.
> Currently it's possible to encounter a deadlock if thread A invokes {{System.out.println()}} and thread B invokes {{Logger.info()}}.  Thread A will get the lock on {{System.out}} (a {{java.io.PrintWriter}}), but then thread B will get the lock on the {{org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender}}.  Then each thread is waiting on the other's lock.
> The suggested improvement (discussed with [~jamezp]) is to fork Log4J's {{ConsoleAppender}} so that instead of calling {{System.out.println}}, it calls the real {{stdout}}.
> *Bonus enhancement*: Drop a {{WARN}} message to the system root logger discouraging the use of {{ConsoleAppender}} in application configurations.



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