What about if you want your resource to be longer lived, but still safely disposed of in a timely manner when it goes out of scope, for example a port in a webs

What about if you want your resource to be longer lived, but still safely disposed of in a timely manner when it goes out of scope, for example a port in a webserver class? Do you have to keep the stack alive here to keep the resource, or can you put it into an object somewhere to get a more RAII style resource management?