Hi, I've done some searching on this topic, and haven't found anything relevant that I could see. Hopefully someone here has an idea where I should be looking.

I'm wondering if there's a way to forcibly terminate another program's socket and/or "unbind" it from a particular TCP/IP port on Win32.

For example, it really looks like program X is occupying port 110 locally (even though I told it not to). I need program X to do other things, so I can't just terminate program X in it's entirety, and the makers of program X are of no help whatsoever on this issue.

I need another program to use port 110, but obviously it won't work if program X is still bound to that port and is blocking all other attempts to use it...

Is there a way to do this programmatically through Perl or via some other means (other than a sledgehammer :) )?

Thanks,

Glenn

In reply to forcibly closing sockets/unbinding ports - win32 by Anonymous Monk

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