René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Logging is initialized before the configuration file is processed.","articleBody":"On Unix systems (Linux and MacOS), PowerShell logging can be customized using the -settingsFile command-line option and it is assumed the file is processed before any logging occurs.\r\n\r\nOn recent builds, this is no longer the case and logging is being initialized before the logging overrides are read from the configuration file resulting in logging using the default values.\r\n\r\nNote that logging initialization is currently through static constructors and any reference to the associated classes can cause initialization to occur.  As a result, logging initialization is non-deterministic and can occur before logging overrides are processed.\r\n\r\nSteps to reproduce\r\n------------------\r\n\r\nCreate a powershell.config.json with a single configuration setting \"LogIdentity\": \"CustomPWSH\"\r\nLaunch PowerShell with -settingsFile powershell.config.json\r\n\r\nExpected behavior\r\n-----------------\r\n\r\nOn Linux, PowerShell logs all events using the identity 'CustomPWSH'\r\n\r\nActual behavior\r\n---------------\r\nPowerShell logs all events using the default identity 'powershell'\r\n\r\nEnvironment data\r\n----------------\r\n\r\n\u003c!-- provide the output of $PSVersionTable --\u003e\r\n\r\n```powershell\r\n\u003e $PSVersionTable\r\n\r\nName                           Value\r\n----                           -----\r\nPSVersion                      6.0.1\r\nPSEdition                      Core\r\nGitCommitId                    v6.0.1\r\nOS                             Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.65-3+deb9u1 (2017-12-23)\r\nPlatform                       Unix\r\nPSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}\r\nPSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3\r\nSerializationVersion           1.1.0.1\r\nWSManStackVersion              3.0\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/dantraMSFT","@type":"Person","name":"dantraMSFT"},"datePublished":"2018-02-01T19:37:50.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/6085/PowerShell/issues/6085"}