redirect() and db connection

[eluser]m4rw3r[/eluser]
When I started to do an auth with drop in folder protection, I took a look at redirect() to see what it needs to do a redirect.

And it does not close the DB connection, it just sends a header then calls exit().

I've searched for a shutdown_function, but I didn't find it, so it seems to skip the closing of the db connection completely.

Should it skip the DB connection closing, it doesn't skip it during normal requests (without redirect())?