Today I started work to switch from using log4cplus with files directly to using the loggingserver. Not only that, it is using the newest version (on the edge!) which is 1.2.0-rc3. Up to here, no major problem.

However, the newer version forces you to use a version of the log4cplus library which is multi-threaded. This causes a major problem because the server makes use of fork() to create child processes each time a connection is made. There are several reason to do so, but there are a couple that I think are certainly the most important ones:

1. Having a child allocating resources can ...