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 Try changing the motd and saving the file. It'll reload. The log
 messages suggest that the server is dropping extant connection - as
-expected - but they don't actually drop. They just internally reboot
-as if each extant connection was fresh. The problem seems to be
-something like latency in shutdown-propagation:
-
- - the new line-reader instance seems to be spawning before the old one exits (!!)
-
- - but then also we see that the reconfiguration of the session
-   listener is "too quick" and doesn't wait for the old connections to
-   drop, so even if the line-reader instance correctly glitched out
-   the old connection, we'd still have a zombie reborn session to deal
-   with.
+expected - but it immediately comes back momentarily before going away
+properly. The session is able to reboot due to the glitching in
+assertion of the listen port *more quickly* than the latency of
+teardown of the previous connection; so the new session-listener
+responds to the assertions from the old connection before the old
+connection has a chance to die. Of course, it *does* die (since commit
+11de40c), but having that zombie reborn new session is annoying.