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mod_vcard_muc: Pass room object around instead of JID, hopefully fixing traceback More efficient to pass the object around instead of using the JID and looking up the object when needed. It seems in some (undetermined) cases get_room_from_jid(room.jid) is nil.
author Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com>
date Tue, 15 Dec 2020 10:49:11 +0000
parents 88474dd1af48
children 999e7cb7f6d9
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This module is an experiment about a more graceful shutdown process.

Why
===

When shutting down, a number of sessions, connections and other things
are teared down. Due to all these things happening very quickly,
sometimes e.g. client unavailable notifications don't make it to all
remote contacts because the server-to-server connections are teared down
just after.

How
===

This module works by breaking the shutdown process into separate steps
with a brief pause between them.

It goes something like this

1.  Stop accepting new client connections.
2.  Close all client connections.
3.  Fire event for everything else.
4.  Tell `net.server` to quit the main loop.
5.  ???
6.  Still here? Kill itself.