The
shutdown()
call causes all or part of a full-duplex connection on the socket
associated with
s
to be shut down.
If
how
is
SHUT_RD,
further receptions will be disallowed.
If
how
is
SHUT_WR,
further transmissions will be disallowed.
If
how
is
SHUT_RDWR,
further receptions and transmissions will be disallowed.
RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned.
On error, -1 is returned, and
errno
is set appropriately.
ERRORS
EBADF
s
is not a valid descriptor.
ENOTCONN
The specified socket is not connected.
ENOTSOCK
s
is a file, not a socket.
CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001, 4.4BSD (the
shutdown()
function call first appeared in 4.2BSD).
NOTES
The constants
SHUT_RD,
SHUT_WR,
SHUT_RDWR
have the value 0, 1, 2,
respectively, and are defined in
<sys/socket.h>
since glibc-2.1.91.
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