Hello David -
On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, David Lloyd wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Mike McCauley wrote:
>
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > On Feb 25, 11:42am, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > If I have the same AcctLogFileName for two different handlers, will the
> > > writing of the detail file be messed up by the two handlers writing to it at
> > > the same time?
> >
> > No. Radiator always opens writes and closes all files it writes to,.
> > Should be no problem.
>
> *However*, just to make you all aware, Radiator *does not* lock the
> logfiles it writes to. Therefore there is a *slight* chance that two
> writes could happen at the same time; granted, the odds are strongly
> against it.
>
As Mike said previously, the logfile is opened - then the write occurs - then
the file is closed again. Unless some other process also tries to write to the
file, locking is not an issue.
regards
Hugh
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