Force socket closed

Fri Mar 17 11:27:30 MST 2006

On Friday 17 March 2006 11:19, Kenneth Burgener wrote:
> Is there a way to force a socket to be closed?  I had an application
> that was forcefully closed.  I believe the kernel will eventually close
> it, but I would prefer not to have the several minute wait.  Any
> suggestions?

I don't know about an individual socket, but you could play with the
value in

/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fin_timeout

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