Using boost::log in parallel environment

Question

I ran the following code with two processes. In the output, there is only one entry. I get a different rank every time. Seems like each process overwrites the file. How can I make all processes to log a message without overwriting?

Expected result (order might be different):

0
1

Actual result:

0 // and sometimes 1

Code:

#include <boost/log/trivial.hpp>
#include <boost/log/utility/setup/file.hpp>
#include <boost/mpi.hpp>

int main()
{
    boost::mpi::environment env;
    boost::mpi::communicator world;

    boost::log::add_file_log("sample.log");
    BOOST_LOG_TRIVIAL(info) << world.rank();
    return 0;
}

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 28 '17 at 13:11

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Boost log doesn't have such mechanism, but you can use separate process for logging data in the same file and provide access to this process outside. To achieve this approach you can use boost sockets or syslog backend

answered Apr 28 '17 at 13:11

arturx64

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 28 '17 at 13:35

In addition to what arturx64 suggested, you can also use an interprocess queue sink to publish log records in your multiple worker processes. These records can be received by a separate receiver process, which can then write the log records to a file. There is an example here.

Using boost::log in parallel environment

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