Seeing as there have been no suggestions as to how to deal with this, I've raised NETTY-412. Cheers, Frank. -- View this message in context: http://netty-forums-and-mailing-lists.685743.n2.nabble.com/Handling-Exceptions-when-Closing-tp6483461p6495692.html Sent from the Netty User Group mailing list archive at Nabble.com.