[Zope-dev] DB.close() needs to be called

[Toby Dickenson]

On Wednesday 13 November 2002 4:01 pm, Chris McDonough wrote:
> Maybe normal shutdown should manually call the shutdown signal handler
> function and normal restart should manually call the restart signal
> handler function?

We are pretty close to that now, which I agree is a good thing.

The shutdown signal handler is now a one-liner that calls Lifetime.shutdo=
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The ZMI handler is a two-liner that calls the same function, then returns=
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some html.

Lifetime.shutdown causes the asyncore select loop to return (possibly aft=
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brief pause to allow clients to disconnect cleanly), and z2.py closes the=
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databases (and hence storages) as its very last action.