Re: Rotate and helpers

Robert Collins wrote:

> logrotate restarts the helpers synchronously, so that their stderr is
> the new cache.log file.
>
> Restarting the helpers synchronously kills all in-progress NTLM
> authentication requests.
>
> NTLM *NEEDS* asynchronous helper restarts. How this is done is
> irrelevant, it _must_ have it.

The helper restarts are asyncronous. Buzy helpers stay around until they are done.
What you are most likely missing is to tell the helper code that your NTLM helpers
are buzy while pinned to a client. Currently it only looks if there is a
outstanding request.

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Henrik