JEP 158: Unified JVM Logging

[Marcus Larsson]

Hi,

Sorry for my late reply.

I think being able to force rotation via jcmd seems like a good feature. 
Files are currently opened in append mode so it should already be 
possible to use external log rotation tools by copying and truncating 
the files. Still I think it would be nice to provide the jcmd for 
rotation as well.

I can see some small issues with the implementation, but we can deal 
with that during the review.

Thanks,
Marcus


On 2015-10-26 00:26, Yasumasa Suenaga wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Have you ever seen my change?
> I (and my customers) need log rotation function via external tool.
>
> I want to merge it by Feature Complete.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yasumasa
> 2015/10/16 22:55 "Yasumasa Suenaga" <yasuenag at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I contributed JDK-7090324: gclog rotation via external tool to be
>> synchronized with
>> logrotated tool on Linux.
>>
>> I think JEP 158 is in progress.
>> However, this JEP does not contain log rotation via external tool in the
>> spec.
>> I want to rotate logs via jcmd in this JEP.
>>
>> I've updated a patch for it:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ysuenaga/jvmlogging-logrotate/
>>
>> This patch provides new option "rotate" in VM.log command.
>> If this change can be accepted, I will file it to JBS and send RFR.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Yasumasa
>>