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shutdown(2) [netbsd man page]

SHUTDOWN(2)						      BSD 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 speci- fies 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''). BSD
August 18, 2002 BSD

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SHUTDOWN(2)						      BSD System Calls Manual						       SHUTDOWN(2)

NAME
shutdown -- shut down part of a full-duplex connection SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/socket.h> int shutdown(int socket, int how); DESCRIPTION
The shutdown() call causes all or part of a full-duplex connection on the socket associated with socket to be shut down. If how is SHUT_RD, further receives will be disallowed. If how is SHUT_WR, further sends will be disallowed. If how is SHUT_RDWR, further sends and receives will be disallowed. RETURN VALUES
The shutdown() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indi- cate the error. ERRORS
The call succeeds unless: [EBADF] Socket is not a valid descriptor. [EINVAL] The how argument is invalid. [ENOTCONN] The specified socket is not connected. [ENOTSOCK] Socket is a file, not a socket. SEE ALSO
connect(2), connectx(2), disconnectx(2), socket(2) HISTORY
The shutdown() function call appeared in 4.2BSD. 4.2 Berkeley Distribution March 18, 2015 4.2 Berkeley Distribution
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