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mod_smacks: added new event "smacks-ack-delayed" used by mod_cloud_notify and extended the readme file accordingly (also mention mod_smacks_offline and mod_smacks_noerror in readme file)
author tmolitor <thilo@eightysoft.de>
date Thu, 24 Nov 2016 00:47:32 +0100
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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 eg 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.