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To: Jaroslav Klaus <J.Klaus@sh.cvut.cz>
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Subject: Re: How to close(kill) sockets?
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On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Jaroslav Klaus wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I killed nmbd (netbios) but socket is still opened. Is it possible to 
> close(kill) this socket as root? I don't want to wait for timeout.

  If the socket is actually open, some other process must still be using
it.

  This belongs on freebsd-questions, not freebsd-hackers.  Moving it there
now.

Tom