Re: Rotate and helpers

Robert Collins wrote:

> Traditional helpers restarts are only asyncronous in that the helpers
> are not force-killed. They are allowed to finish replying to squid.
> Whilst there is a potential log race there, you would have to be very
> unlucky to strike it.

Not very. At least for the older squids using dnsserver, the window is 2 minutes when
there is DNS troubles...

> You have pointed out a bug in the code though: I was only ignoring the
> shutdown flag on submit, not on dispatch, leading to the 'killing'
> problem. Thanks for that.

And is what I said. There is no more reason for rotate to kill NTLM sessions than there
is for NTLM to leak helpers.

> This still means that the requests completed after the rotate will get
> logged to the wrong file though.

Fine by me.

--
Henrik