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Command: shutdown | Section: 2 | Source: NetBSD | File: shutdown.2
SHUTDOWN(2) FreeBSD System Calls Manual SHUTDOWN(2)
NAME
shutdown - shut down part of a full-duplex connection
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/socket.h>
int
shutdown(int s, int how);
DESCRIPTION
The shutdown() call causes all or part of a full-duplex connection on the
socket associated with s to be shut down. The how argument specifies
which part of the connection will be shut down. Permissible values are:
SHUT_RD further receives will be disallowed.
SHUT_WR further sends will be disallowed.
SHUT_RDWR further sends and receives will be disallowed.
RETURN VALUES
A 0 is returned if the call succeeds, -1 if it fails.
ERRORS
The call succeeds unless:
[EBADF] s is not a valid descriptor.
[EINVAL] The how argument is invalid.
[ENOTCONN] The specified socket is not connected.
[ENOTSOCK] s is a file, not a socket.
SEE ALSO
connect(2), socket(2)
HISTORY
The shutdown() function call appeared in 4.2BSD. The how arguments used
to be simply 0, 1, and 2, but now have named values as specified by
X/Open Portability Guide Issue 4 ("XPG4").
FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8 August 18, 2002 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8