SHUTDOWN(2) Linux Programmer's Manual SHUTDOWN(2)

shutdown - shut down part of a full-duplex connection

#include <sys/socket.h>

int shutdown(int s, int how);

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.

On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.

s is not a valid descriptor.
The specified socket is not connected.
s is a file, not a socket.

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.

4.4BSD (the shutdown function call first appeared in 4.2BSD).

connect(2), socket(2)

1993-07-24 BSD Man Page

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