What is the best way to write to several logs that are continuously being updated?

Question

Working on an irc client in Adobe AIR in JavaScript, and thinking about logging. Each channel would have its own log file. I wouldn't keep all of the logs open while the app was running would I? I'd log every few minutes? What's the best way to do this?

Answer 1

I don't see why not to keep all the log files open. I would not expect any other apps to write to the logs, at least while your client is open. I also would not try (at least at first) to implement your own buffering. Just write lines as they come and let the OS and runtime do the buffering.