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Luckily, if you stop the application, the port will be released. The title says How to properly close a port?, not how to kill a process. What if you want the keep the process running but don't want to listen on that port anymore?
I don't think it is possible to free a port held by a process without killing the same process.
Luckily, if you stop the application, the port will be released. The title says How to properly close a port?, not how to kill a process. What if you want the keep the process running but don't want to listen on that port anymore?
I don't think it is possible to free a port held by a process without killing the same process.