graceful-stop and rotatelogs

[Paul Silevitch <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I noticed the following warning text in the graceful-stop section of the apache manual (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/stopping.html):

"You should also be wary of other potential race conditions, such as using rotatelogs style piped logging. Multiple running instances of rotatelogs attempting to rotate the same logfiles at the same time may destroy each other's logfiles."

The only solution to the above race condition that I came up with was to give the log file a unique name during startup (using a <perl> block).  Is anyone else using graceful-stop and rotatelogs?  If so, what are you doing to handle this race condition?

Thanks in advance,

Paul