[Gllug] Killing network connections

[Robert McKay]

On 10/12/07, Tom Weissmann <trmsw at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> This is more out of curiosity than necessity...
>
> Is it possible to close a network connection that "lsof -i" shows me
> without sending a message to either of the processes involved? Can I
> tell the kernel to kill it somehow?

I'm not really sure what you're trying to achieve exactly.

You could try something like this:

gdb -p <pid>
call close(<fd>)
detach

It won't receive any "message", but things that use network
connections tend to check them now and again to see if they're still
there.

Rob.
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