diag: add support for SOCK_DESTROY#15
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It is implemented on top of SockDiagMessage, and allows using Linux's CONFIG_INET_DIAG_DESTROY feature to close an arbitrary socket. A long running, but buggy process might have hanging sockets kept alive by error. Using SOCK_DESTROY allows closing arbitrary sockets as root; an example tool that uses this feature and this crate is at: https://github.com/anisse/tcpkill
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It is implemented on top of SockDiagMessage, and allows using Linux's CONFIG_INET_DIAG_DESTROY feature to close an arbitrary socket.
A long running, but buggy process might have hanging sockets kept alive by error. Using SOCK_DESTROY allows closing arbitrary sockets as root; an example tool that uses this feature and this crate is at: https://github.com/anisse/tcpkill
This PR should replace this one: little-dude/netlink#283