MBOX-Line: From jkt at gentoo.org  Fri Jun 30 13:14:43 2006
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
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Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:37 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] IMAP disconnection
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Mark Crispin wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
>> Don't you think the servers on such platforms should deal with it,
>> instead of expecting all clients on all platforms to do so?
>> For example, a server on such a platform can fork off another intance
>> of itself (invisible to the client), close the IMAP connection, and
>> let the client go on its way?
> 
> That makes no sense.  I said that the server gets a non-maskable kill
> from the OS.  The server has no notice, nor any opportunity to react; it
> is instantly destroyed.

The server might have forked and the original process exited to avoid
such behavior, but that would be rather dumb, of course :)

Cheers,
-jkt

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