On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:09:50 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> But does that logging include the thread identity? If multiple threads can 
>> race to exit and all log, then the developer/user needs to know which 
>> logging came from which thread.
>
>> But does that logging include the thread identity? If multiple threads can 
>> race to exit and all log, then the developer/user needs to know which 
>> logging came from which thread.
> 
> That's really up to the Logger and its configuration. If j.u.logging is used 
> then formatters can be configured to put the thread ID into the log records. 
> With 3rd party logging libraries there seems to be several choices, like %t 
> for the thread name.
> 
> The main usage for this logging is to be able to find code in tests, plugins, 
> etc. that is calling System.exit and causing the test runner or container to 
> exit. So I think it's less about "which thread" and more about "which code".

System.Logger is a facade for arbitrary user-code, commonly the log4J bridge. I 
routinely observe log4J throwing SecurityException's from deep within its 
implementation (since it is only partially implemented to handle the security 
manager)

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12770

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