How to close a file descriptor from another process in unix systems

Question

You can use command lsof to get file descriptors for all running processes, but what I would like to do is to close some of those descriptors without being insi

Answer 1

I don't think so but lsof gives you the PID of the process that has opened the file, so what you can do is entirely kill the process or at least send a signal to let it exit.