From 5a92b13a468bcdcb133784e392322e503cd24276 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vinay Sajip Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:35:08 +0000 Subject: Refined section on logging to one file from multiple processes. --- Doc/library/logging.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/logging.rst b/Doc/library/logging.rst index 58bda37..111969c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/logging.rst +++ b/Doc/library/logging.rst @@ -1331,6 +1331,12 @@ existing processes to perform this function.) The following section documents this approach in more detail and includes a working socket receiver which can be used as a starting point for you to adapt in your own applications. +If you are using a recent version of Python which includes the +:mod:`multiprocessing` module, you can write your own handler which uses the +:class:`Lock` class from this module to serialize access to the file from +your processes. The existing :class:`FileHandler` and subclasses do not make +use of :mod:`multiprocessing` at present, though they may do so in the future. + .. _network-logging: Sending and receiving logging events across a network -- cgit v0.12