On 08/23/2007 10:32 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Ruediger Pluem wrote:
>>> As I got to thinking about this, when the situation is this fatal, why kill >>> an otherwise perfectly healthy server? Worst case, we have some piped >>> loggers >>> which hang around longer than desired. It's a situation which I wouldn't >>> want to bring down a production server for. >> Ok, so the situation, that you cannot get the stdout handle, is very >> unlikely to >> happen after you fixed the windows stdout problem, correct? >> So if we deal with hanging piped loggers something else got terribly wrong. > > Yes, but it could be as simple as someone's module closing stdout > inadvertently. That shouldn't kill the server, would you agree? Yes, but I guess an error message to stderr could be helpful to detect this provided that we a valid stderr :-). Regards Rüdiger
