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		Spivak on April 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Killport – CLI tool to kill processes run... Well yeah, because blindly killing the process that's listening on the port will do the wrong thing for Docker and you can't predict without asking Docker what container/process is the one that owns the port.

xorcist on April 25, 2023 [–]

Only because Docker is broken. No other process manager would be confused by that.

Maybe we should patch kill itself? It wouldn't surprise me one bit if that pull request exists.

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