RFR: JDK-8140556: Add force rotation option to VM.log jcmd

[Yasumasa Suenaga]

Hi Marcus,

Thank you for replying.

I filed this feature to JBS and change subject of this email.
Could you be a sponsor and review it?

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ysuenaga/JDK-8140556/webrev.00/


Thanks,

Yasumasa


On 2015/10/26 18:56, Marcus Larsson wrote:
> 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
>>>
>