The FileHandler can either write to a specified file, or it can write to a rotating set of files.
For a rotating set of files, as each file reaches a given size limit, it is closed, rotated out, and a new file opened. Successively older files are named by adding "0", "1", "2", etc into the base filename.
By default buffering is enabled in the IO libraries but each log record is flushed out when it is complete.
By default the XMLFormatter class is used for formatting.
Configuration: By default each FileHandler is initialized using the following LogManager configuration properties. If properties are not defined (or have invalid values) then the specified default values are used.
A pattern consists of a string that includes the following special components that will be replaced at runtime:
Thus for example a pattern of "%t/java%g.log" with a count of 2 would typically cause log files to be written on Solaris to /var/tmp/java0.log and /var/tmp/java1.log whereas on Windows 95 they would be typically written to C:\TEMP\java0.log and C:\TEMP\java1.log
Generation numbers follow the sequence 0, 1, 2, etc.
Normally the "%u" unique field is set to 0. However, if the FileHandler tries to open the filename and finds the file is currently in use by another process it will increment the unique number field and try again. This will be repeated until FileHandler finds a file name that is not currently in use. If there is a conflict and no "%u" field has been specified, it will be added at the end of the filename after a dot. (This will be after any automatically added generation number.)
Thus if three processes were all trying to log to fred%u.%g.txt then they might end up using fred0.0.txt, fred1.0.txt, fred2.0.txt as the first file in their rotating sequences.
Note that the use of unique ids to avoid conflicts is only guaranteed to work reliably when using a local disk file system. @version 1.36, 04/07/06 @since 1.4
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