[AWS] Clean Termination

[Ted Dennison]

Ian Broster wrote:

> Is there a nice way to cleanly terminate a server, externally from
> a request? That is, the request must complete and return a page
> to the browser before the server shuts down?
>
> Calling shutdown from within the request does not return
> a page, and other hacky methods (timeouts, monitoring ports etc)
> are just that.

A semi-hacky method would be to set a flag at the end of the request 
handling routine. If the flag is read by a low-priority task, that would 
be safe on a uni-processor machine. I wouldn't be satisfied with that 
these days though. I'd me more inclined to hack a "request shutdown" 
routine into AWS that is callable from within request handlers.

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