All,

Does anyone know why text sent to stdout might intermittently get sent
to an open file?  I have some code which writes data to a file and logs
its activity using log4j.  On Friday, the log statements began to
intermittently appear in the file.  I know the following things are
true:

* The code did not change
* The configuration did not change
* The log4j Logger is mapped only to a ConsoleAppender, i.e. log
statements are written only to stdout
* The name of the file is always unique

Here is the code:

//Create a unique filename for the order
filename = "Order " + orderId;

//Create the file
logger.info("Creating file " + fileName);
File file = new File(fileName);
FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(file);
logger.info("Writing File Content ");
fw.write(fileContent + System.getProperty("line.separator"));
logger.info("Closing File ");
fw.close();

It smells to me of an O/S or app server problem in which the file
handle for the open file is being provided for calls to stdout.  Has
anyone ever seen this?

Thanks,

Brian