netdev - Re: [PATCH] NET: Add TCP connection abort IOCTL

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Message-Id: <E1HWOXu-0000P5-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
Date:	Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:09:58 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	jheffner@....edu (John Heffner)
Cc:	jheffner@....edu, mhuth@...sta.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	dagriego@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Add TCP connection abort IOCTL

John Heffner <jheffner@....edu> wrote:
> 
> Responding to myself in good form :P  I'll add that there are other ways 
> to do this currently but all I know of are hackish, f.e. using a raw 
> socket to send RST packets to yourself.

While not pretty, it is easy enough to ptrace a process using gdb and
call shutdown(2) on the fd.

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