diff --git a/renderdoc/common/common.cpp b/renderdoc/common/common.cpp
index 2b9d71dd7..0f6bc5cde 100644
--- a/renderdoc/common/common.cpp
+++ b/renderdoc/common/common.cpp
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ uint64_t Log2Floor(uint64_t value)
 #endif
 
 static std::string logfile;
-static bool logfileOpened = false;
+static FileIO::LogFileHandle *logfileHandle = NULL;
 
 const char *rdclog_getfilename()
 {
@@ -308,21 +308,22 @@ void rdclog_filename(const char *filename)
   if(filename && filename[0])
     logfile = filename;
 
-  FileIO::logfile_close(NULL);
+  FileIO::logfile_close(logfileHandle, NULL);
 
-  logfileOpened = false;
+  logfileHandle = NULL;
 
   if(!logfile.empty())
   {
-    logfileOpened = FileIO::logfile_open(logfile.c_str());
+    logfileHandle = FileIO::logfile_open(logfile.c_str());
 
-    if(logfileOpened && previous.c_str())
+    if(logfileHandle && previous.c_str())
     {
       std::vector<unsigned char> previousContents;
       FileIO::slurp(previous.c_str(), previousContents);
 
       if(!previousContents.empty())
-        FileIO::logfile_append((const char *)&previousContents[0], previousContents.size());
+        FileIO::logfile_append(logfileHandle, (const char *)&previousContents[0],
+                               previousContents.size());
 
       FileIO::Delete(previous.c_str());
     }
@@ -339,7 +340,7 @@ void rdclog_enableoutput()
 void rdclog_closelog(const char *filename)
 {
   log_output_enabled = false;
-  FileIO::logfile_close(filename);
+  FileIO::logfile_close(logfileHandle, filename);
 }
 
 void rdclog_flush()
@@ -366,10 +367,10 @@ void rdclogprint_int(LogType type, const char *fullMsg, const char *msg)
     OSUtility::WriteOutput(OSUtility::Output_StdErr, msg);
 #endif
 #if ENABLED(OUTPUT_LOG_TO_DISK)
-  if(logfileOpened)
+  if(logfileHandle)
   {
     // strlen used as byte length - str is UTF-8 so this is NOT number of characters
-    FileIO::logfile_append(fullMsg, strlen(fullMsg));
+    FileIO::logfile_append(logfileHandle, fullMsg, strlen(fullMsg));
   }
 #endif
 }
diff --git a/renderdoc/os/os_specific.h b/renderdoc/os/os_specific.h
index 54655152f..c088de5c4 100644
--- a/renderdoc/os/os_specific.h
+++ b/renderdoc/os/os_specific.h
@@ -311,9 +311,10 @@ int fclose(FILE *f);
 
 // functions for atomically appending to a log that may be in use in multiple
 // processes
-bool logfile_open(const char *filename);
-void logfile_append(const char *msg, size_t length);
-void logfile_close(const char *filename);
+struct LogFileHandle;
+LogFileHandle *logfile_open(const char *filename);
+void logfile_append(LogFileHandle *logHandle, const char *msg, size_t length);
+void logfile_close(LogFileHandle *logHandle, const char *deleteFilename);
 
 // read the whole logfile into memory. This may race with processes writing, but it will read the
 // whole of the file at some point. Useful since normal file reading may fail on the shared logfile
diff --git a/renderdoc/os/posix/posix_stringio.cpp b/renderdoc/os/posix/posix_stringio.cpp
index 46dc8ceb4..7b3da5abe 100644
--- a/renderdoc/os/posix/posix_stringio.cpp
+++ b/renderdoc/os/posix/posix_stringio.cpp
@@ -471,15 +471,15 @@ bool exists(const char *filename)
   return (res == 0);
 }
 
-static int logfileFD = -1;
+rdcarray<int> logfiles;
 
 // this is used in posix_process.cpp, so that we can close the handle any time that we fork()
 void ReleaseFDAfterFork()
 {
   // we do NOT release the shared lock here, since the file descriptor is shared so we'd be
   // releasing the parent process's lock. Just close our file descriptor
-  if(logfileFD >= 0)
-    close(logfileFD);
+  for(int log : logfiles)
+    close(log);
 }
 
 std::string logfile_readall(const char *filename)
@@ -504,35 +504,49 @@ std::string logfile_readall(const char *filename)
   return ret;
 }
 
-bool logfile_open(const char *filename)
+LogFileHandle *logfile_open(const char *filename)
 {
-  logfileFD = open(filename, O_APPEND | O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH);
+  int fd = open(filename, O_APPEND | O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH);
+
+  if(fd < 0)
+  {
+    RDCWARN("Couldn't open logfile '%s': %d", filename, (int)errno);
+    return NULL;
+  }
+
+  logfiles.push_back(fd);
 
   // acquire a shared lock. Every process acquires a shared lock to the common logfile. Each time a
   // process shuts down and wants to close the logfile, it releases its shared lock and tries to
   // acquire an exclusive lock, to see if it can delete the file. See logfile_close.
-  int err = flock(logfileFD, LOCK_SH | LOCK_NB);
+  int err = flock(fd, LOCK_SH | LOCK_NB);
 
   if(err < 0)
-    RDCWARN("Couldn't acquire shared lock to %s: %d", filename, (int)errno);
+    RDCWARN("Couldn't acquire shared lock to '%s': %d", filename, (int)errno);
 
-  return logfileFD >= 0;
+  return (LogFileHandle *)(uintptr_t)fd;
 }
 
-void logfile_append(const char *msg, size_t length)
+void logfile_append(LogFileHandle *logHandle, const char *msg, size_t length)
 {
-  if(logfileFD >= 0)
-    write(logfileFD, msg, (unsigned int)length);
-}
-
-void logfile_close(const char *filename)
-{
-  if(logfileFD >= 0)
+  if(logHandle)
   {
-    // release our shared lock
-    int err = flock(logfileFD, LOCK_UN | LOCK_NB);
+    int fd = int(uintptr_t(logHandle) & 0xffffffff);
 
-    if(err == 0 && filename)
+    write(fd, msg, (unsigned int)length);
+  }
+}
+
+void logfile_close(LogFileHandle *logHandle, const char *deleteFilename)
+{
+  if(logHandle)
+  {
+    int fd = int(uintptr_t(logHandle) & 0xffffffff);
+
+    // release our shared lock
+    int err = flock(fd, LOCK_UN | LOCK_NB);
+
+    if(err == 0 && deleteFilename)
     {
       // now try to acquire an exclusive lock. If this succeeds, no other processes are using the
       // file (since no other shared locks exist), so we can delete it. If it fails, some other
@@ -540,20 +554,20 @@ void logfile_close(const char *filename)
       // NOTE: there is a race here between acquiring the exclusive lock and unlinking, but we
       // aren't interested in this kind of race - we're interested in whether an application is
       // still running when the UI closes, or vice versa, or similar cases.
-      err = flock(logfileFD, LOCK_EX | LOCK_NB);
+      err = flock(fd, LOCK_EX | LOCK_NB);
 
       if(err == 0)
       {
         // we got the exclusive lock. Now release it, close fd, and unlink the file
-        err = flock(logfileFD, LOCK_UN | LOCK_NB);
+        err = flock(fd, LOCK_UN | LOCK_NB);
 
         // can't really error handle here apart from retrying
         if(err != 0)
-          RDCWARN("Couldn't release exclusive lock to %s: %d", filename, (int)errno);
+          RDCWARN("Couldn't release exclusive lock to '%s': %d", deleteFilename, (int)errno);
 
-        close(logfileFD);
+        close(fd);
 
-        unlink(filename);
+        unlink(deleteFilename);
 
         // return immediately so we don't close again below.
         return;
@@ -561,12 +575,14 @@ void logfile_close(const char *filename)
     }
     else
     {
-      RDCWARN("Couldn't release shared lock to %s: %d", filename, (int)errno);
+      RDCWARN("Couldn't release shared lock to '%s': %d", deleteFilename, (int)errno);
       // nothing to do, we won't try again, just exit. The log might lie around, but that's
       // relatively harmless.
     }
 
-    close(logfileFD);
+    logfiles.removeOne(fd);
+
+    close(fd);
   }
 }
 };
diff --git a/renderdoc/os/win32/win32_stringio.cpp b/renderdoc/os/win32/win32_stringio.cpp
index aee339129..86ea20e03 100644
--- a/renderdoc/os/win32/win32_stringio.cpp
+++ b/renderdoc/os/win32/win32_stringio.cpp
@@ -662,15 +662,12 @@ int fclose(FILE *f)
   return ::fclose(f);
 }
 
-static HANDLE logHandle = NULL;
-
-bool logfile_open(const char *filename)
+LogFileHandle *logfile_open(const char *filename)
 {
   std::wstring wfn = StringFormat::UTF82Wide(std::string(filename));
-  logHandle = CreateFileW(wfn.c_str(), FILE_APPEND_DATA, FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE, NULL,
-                          OPEN_ALWAYS, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL);
-
-  return logHandle != NULL;
+  return (LogFileHandle *)CreateFileW(wfn.c_str(), FILE_APPEND_DATA,
+                                      FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE, NULL, OPEN_ALWAYS,
+                                      FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL);
 }
 
 static std::string logfile_readall_fallback(const wchar_t *filename)
@@ -747,25 +744,24 @@ std::string logfile_readall(const char *filename)
   return ret;
 }
 
-void logfile_append(const char *msg, size_t length)
+void logfile_append(LogFileHandle *logHandle, const char *msg, size_t length)
 {
   if(logHandle)
   {
     DWORD bytesWritten = 0;
-    WriteFile(logHandle, msg, (DWORD)length, &bytesWritten, NULL);
+    WriteFile((HANDLE)logHandle, msg, (DWORD)length, &bytesWritten, NULL);
   }
 }
 
-void logfile_close(const char *filename)
+void logfile_close(LogFileHandle *logHandle, const char *deleteFilename)
 {
-  CloseHandle(logHandle);
-  logHandle = NULL;
+  CloseHandle((HANDLE)logHandle);
 
-  if(filename)
+  if(deleteFilename)
   {
     // we can just try to delete the file. If it's open elsewhere in another process, the delete
     // will fail.
-    std::wstring wpath = StringFormat::UTF82Wide(std::string(filename));
+    std::wstring wpath = StringFormat::UTF82Wide(std::string(deleteFilename));
     ::DeleteFileW(wpath.c_str());
   }
 }