thekid/rfc — Issue #64: RFC 0064: RollingFileAppender
Author: thekid
Created: 2011-10-09 14:49:28+00:00
State: open
Labels: draft, rfc

Scope of Change
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A specialized file appender that continuously updates its filename will be
added.

Rationale
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For long running applications, the logfile's name will stay the same even
if the day changes. It should be recalculated transparently.

Functionality
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Public API in `util.log.rolling`:

```php

```

Security considerations
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n/a

Speed impact
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n/a

Dependencies
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n/a

Related documents
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- http://logging.apache.org/log4j/docs/api/org/apache/log4j/DailyRollingFileAppender.html
A bit different than what we want here...

Comments
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- friebe, Wed Jun 28 11:40:49 CEST 2006
"Daily" is a bit unflexible, because we'd need "Hourly", "Yearly",
"Monthly" (and so on) at some time. Maybe "IntervalBased"?