 Yes. Firstly, there's hardly any other choice: the channel's dead; there's no other way of knowing what to wait for; and we can't just sit there cluelessly. But more to the point, this means it's a <em>not</em>-graceful scenario: <a class="el" href="classipc_1_1session_1_1Session__base_1_1Graceful__finisher.html" title="Optional to use by subclasses, this operates a simple state machine that carries out a graceful-sessi...">Graceful_finisher</a> can't hope to deal with it and can only proceed heuristically