truncate %t convesion output (was [jira] Resolved: (LOGCXX-110) try fix 64bit log4cxx_intptr_t)

[Mihai Rusu <di...@roedu.net>]

Hi there

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:54:56AM +0100, Curt Arnold (JIRA) wrote:
>      [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOGCXX-110?page=all ]
>      
> Curt Arnold resolved LOGCXX-110:
> --------------------------------
> 
>     Fix Version: 0.9.8
>      Resolution: Fixed
> 
> Committed as rev 330179
> 
> Modified previous patch to accept either upper or lower case a-f in thread name patterns and to add "0x" to char buffer before apr_snprintf instead transcoding then appending.

Thanks for fixing this. However, this reminds me of some small issue I 
have with log4cxx (which in turn is because of lack of any documentation 
I could find about the format specifiers of 
log4j.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern setting). I would like to 
know if it's possible to configure log4cxx to "truncate" from the output 
of the thread ID, currently %t "resolves" into a veeeery long string 
(because as I see it, it prints out a pointer and on my AMD64 
architecture this takes some screen space) like this:

[0x00002AAAAC79FDC0] DEBUG test - hello 45
[0x00002AAAAC79FDC0] DEBUG test - world
[0x00002AAAAC79FDC0] INFO  test -  *** test manip *** 123456

I am using log4cxx in multithreaded programs so just removing %t from 
ConversionPattern I don't want. But also, I don't need the first 8 
digits from the %t output because they are always the same and for me is 
enough to have just the last 8. So, is it possible now to truncate the 
%t output so it only displays a configured last number of digits ? If 
yes please give me some URL to where this is documented and please 
accept my apologies for not knowing this already. If not, please 
consider this as a feature request.

Thanks!

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