shutdown(3SOCKET)

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUES | ERRORS | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | NOTES

NAME

shutdown– shut down part of a full-duplex connection

SYNOPSIS

cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lsocket  -lnsl [ library ... ]

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 0, then further receives will be disallowed. If how is 1, then further sends will be disallowed. If how is 2, then 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 file descriptor.

ENOMEM

There was insufficient user memory available for the operation to complete.

ENOSR

There were insufficient STREAMS resources available for the operation to complete.

ENOTCONN

The specified socket is not connected.

ENOTSOCK

s 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), attributes(5), socket(3HEAD)

NOTES

The how values should be defined constants.

SunOS 5.8  Last Revised 16 May 1997

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUES | ERRORS | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | NOTES