[plt-scheme] web server log corruption

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Mon May 23 11:34:13 EDT 2005

On May 23, 2005, at 11:10 AM, David Van Horn wrote:

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> I've noticed an occasional malformed entry into the web server's log 
> file such as the following:
>
> (from "67.165.95.212" to "132.198.11.9" for "/script.js" at "Saturday, 
> April 9th, 2005 8:51:02a(from "24.25.16.63" to "132.198.11.9" for "/" 
> at "Saturday, April 9th, 2005 6:10:29pm")
>
> Out of a 300k line log file, I've found three entries like this.
>
> Has anyone else seen this behavior, or know what causes/fixes it?
>
> Thanks,
> David

I have seen this -- a long time ago. I wrote the initial logging 
mechanism, placed the log output into the individual thread, and forgot 
to lock the file. I thought I had fixed this and/or Paul had fixed 
this.

Sorry I have no time to look at this problem this week. -- Matthias



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