Blocking flush on async_logger

[mateuszzz88]

spdlog::async_logger::flush() is non-blocking operation. Flush is scheduled for later. I would like to have blocking variant that will wait untill everything that was scheduled for logging untill now is flushed by all sinks. My usecase is that I want to be be sure that everything I wanted to log is safe on disk and can be passed for further processing outside program. Frankly I don't see value in flush operation that doesn't flush NOW and only promises it will be done later. It will be done later anyway, at shutdown at latest.

[tt4g]

Try call spdlog::shutdown().

[mateuszzz88]

Further logging is then impossible: C++ exception with description "async log: thread pool doesn't exist anymore" thrown in the test body.

[tt4g]

Yes. spdlog::shutdown() should be called just before the application exit.

[mateuszzz88]

I realize this is feature request. Best API (IMO) would be for flush to return std::future. But separate flush methods are ok too.