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sp332 on Aug 27, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To

Isn't it better to neatly close up remote connections instead of leaving them hanging to time out? I'm thinking of web servers and database clients.

astrange on Sept 3, 2016 [–]

The kernel should close all your TCP connections properly when you die, so it should all be good. Mostly you need to autosave files every so often.

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