[issue44399] log rotator cookbook example might waste disk space

2021-06-13 Thread mori-b
mori-b added the comment: Indeed this situation would rise only under misusage of the log, where multiple processes inherit by mistake or by wrong design a file descriptor of a same log file (Regarding the threads case I unfortunately cannot reproduce). While this kind of misusage doesn&#

[issue44399] log rotator cookbook example might waste disk space

2021-06-11 Thread mori-b
mori-b added the comment: Additional precision : this issue can happen when the log file is shared between multiple threads. And naturally also between different processes, which is not recommended but can happen by mistake. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue44399] log rotator cookbook example might waste disk space

2021-06-11 Thread mori-b
mori-b added the comment: In https://docs.python.org/3/howto/logging-cookbook.html#using-a-rotator-and-namer-to-customize-log-rotation-processing, the log rotator example deletes the original log file after compressing it. However, running on Linux the command "lsof +L1" show

[issue44399] log rotator cookbook example might waste disk space

2021-06-11 Thread mori-b
New submission from mori-b : In https://docs.python.org/3/howto/logging-cookbook.html#using-a-rotator-and-namer-to-customize-log-rotation-processing, the log rotator example deletes the original log file after compressing it. However, running on Linux the command "lsof +S1" show