Re: Filestreams

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For now I can just leave the stream open and let it dispose of
itself at the end of all things.

I wouldn't trust this approach; firstly, objects *never" dispose
themselves; they may get finalized by the GC, but that is not (quite)
the same thing. In fact, finalizers aren't fully guaranteed to run at
all, let alone at a predictable time. My advice: find a point in your
program where you know you are preparing to exit; explicitely Close()
and Dispose() the stream/writer, presumably by a static Close() method
on the Log class. The other option is to look for existing logging
solutions; they may do everything you need (and more) and abstract
away the complexities, including (possibly) tricks like queueing
writes in a producer/consumer pattern to avoid being IO-bound (just
blocked while enqueing).

In the threaded scenario, yes: you will need locking.

Marc


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