Log4cxx shutdown on ros::shutdown

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Hi, I want to use my own logger. However I can't use the logger after call ros::shutdown method. Console output is:

log4cxx: No appender could be found for logger (<logger_name>). log4cxx: Please initialize the log4cxx system properly.

I found that ros::shutdown calls ros::console::shutdown and It calls log4cxx::shutdown.

"By invoking ros::console::shutdown(); in C++ the logging subsystem is shut down and therefore no more logging occurs."

Log4cxx api docs for shutdown:

"Safely close and remove all appenders in all loggers including the root logger."

Therefore my own logger is closed too.

Isn't it a bad implementation? Why can't I use my own logger after ros::shutdown? Shouldn't there be a second way to close logger instead in ros::shutdown?