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+Shadowsocks supports graceful shutdown like nginx.
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+You can send SIGQUIT to sslocal or ssserver process. The process closes listening sockets but still serves alive connections, allowing you to start a new process on the same port. When all connections on the old process are closed, it will then exit.
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