stay socket

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

How do you know the process is no longer running?  Are you sure the
process isn't in some weird (zombie-like) state?  The OS should
close the socket once the process goes away, unless the process died
due to a kernel bug.

-derek

FRamsay at castelhq.com writes:

> I have a socket showing up on netstat for a process that is no longer
> running.  Is there any command line way to force this socket to close?
> (short of re-booting).
> 
>                         -fjr
> 
> 
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