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shutdown(3socket) [opensolaris man page]

shutdown(3SOCKET)					     Sockets Library Functions						 shutdown(3SOCKET)

NAME
shutdown - shut down part of a full-duplex connection SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -lsocket -lnsl [ library... ] #include <sys/socket.h> int shutdown(int s, int how); DESCRIPTION
The shutdown() call shuts down all or part of a full-duplex connection on the socket associated with s. If how is SHUT_RD, further receives are disallowed. If how is SHUT_WR, further sends are disallowed. If how is SHUT_RDWR, further sends and receives are disallowed. The how values should be defined constants. RETURN VALUES
0 is returned if the call succeeds. -1 is returned if the call fails. ERRORS
The call succeeds unless one of the following conditions exists: EBADF The s value is not a valid file descriptor. ENOMEM Insufficient user memory is available for the operation to complete. ENOSR Insufficient STREAMS resources are available for the operation to complete. ENOTCONN The specified socket is not connected. ENOTSOCK The s value is not a socket. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Safe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
connect(3SOCKET), socket(3SOCKET), socket.h(3HEAD), attributes(5) SunOS 5.11 31 Jan 2005 shutdown(3SOCKET)

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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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