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How to close rogue filedescriptors?

Kyndig

2004-01-23, 5:01 pm

Let's say a program opens a bunch of file handles and then dies
non-gracefully, leaving this(on a linux box):

bash-2.05$ /sbin/sysctl fs.file-nr
fs.file-nr = 65536 64352 65536

Is there a way to close all those file descriptors without rebooting?