From: Mark Huth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:09:30 -0700

> Actually, there are legitimate uses for this sort of API.  The patch 
> allows an administrator to kill specific connections that are in use by 
> other applications, where the close is not available, since the socket 
> is owned by another process.

Anything that wants to act as an external agent to manipulate
or terminate connections should use netfilter.
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