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		zzzcpan on Sept 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It ain't about the callbacks, it's about the flow ... Sorry, don't know much about nodejs. But it seems that node does have a way to remove/setup events, and pause read events: http://nodejs.org/api/events.html#events_emitter_removeliste... http://nodejs.org/api/net.html#net_socket_pause

rbrcurtis on Sept 6, 2013 [–]

Ahh ok. I thought you meant at the OS level.

zzzcpan on Sept 6, 2013 | [–]

Well, kind of. Pause should instruct event loop to stop waiting for read events from the OS for particular fd, i.e. remove from epoll/kqueue, so new connections would stuck in backlog at the OS level.

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