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Re:A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To by sp332 on Saturday August 27, 2016 @11:00AM (#12372612)
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.
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Re:A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To by astrange on Saturday September 03, 2016 @06:01AM (#12418572)
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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