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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: NFNETLINK answers: File exists
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:06:22 +0200
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Jo=E3o Valverde wrote:
> Hello everyone,
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> I'm working on a program that uses libnetfilter_queue, and after the
> program crashes or I have to kill it I get the following error starti=
ng up:
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> NFNETLINK answers: File exists
> Error during nfq_bind_pf(): File exists
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> Rebooting fixes it so I guess the netlink socket in question is a
> "virtual" one. What I'd like to know is how to clear this error witho=
ut
> rebooting?

Could you post the code of your program?

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