# Gavin Andresen
# 2011-03-03 15:45:13
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4069.msg58951#msg58951

You can't open and close the file; it is not thread-safe (thread one closes fp and sets it to NULL and sleeps, thread two wakes up and uses a NULL fp). @p{par}

And you can't wrap the open/close in a CRITICAL_SECTION, because logging happens at shutdown, CRITICAL_SECTION relies on a destructor to work properly, and you can't control the order in which C++ destructors are called during shutdown. @p{par}

I learned all that the hard way a few releases back. @p{par}

You can rotate the logs using the "copytruncate" feature of @p{(link}logrotate@p{link)}.