Hi Thomas, Thomas Neidhart wrote:
> Hi all, > > I think the logging component is almost ready for a (long awaited) 1.1.2 > release. It fixes several bugs, especially a nasty deadlock in > WeakHashtable, which was requested by several people already. > > There are two issues for which I would like to get more feedback before > starting a RC: > > * LOGGING-135: Thread-safety improvements > For the Log4JLogger and the LogKitLogger, I did implement the double > checked locking idiom from Josh Bloch for the getLogger() method. > Now this only works safely for Java 5+, but I was hesitating to make > these methods synchronized as they are used everywhere in the > adapter. > > * LOGGING-144: LogFactory ignores Throwable > There are several throw/catch(Throwable) in the code, where certain > exceptions like ThreadDeath are silently ignored. I provided a > patch, but would like some people to review it before applying it. > There are no reports about problems in the wild, so we could also > postpone this fix. No, we should not again release something, that swallows stuff like ThreadDeath. Sebb is definitely right here. Cheers, Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
