SHUTDOWN(3P) POSIX Programmer's Manual SHUTDOWN(3P) PROLOG This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux. NAME shutdown -- shut down socket send and receive operations SYNOPSIS #include int shutdown(int socket, int how); DESCRIPTION The shutdown() function shall cause all or part of a full-duplex connection on the socket associated with the file descriptor socket to be shut down. The shutdown() function takes the following arguments: socket Specifies the file descriptor of the socket. how Specifies the type of shutdown. The values are as follows: SHUT_RD Disables further receive operations. SHUT_WR Disables further send operations. SHUT_RDWR Disables further send and receive operations. The shutdown() function disables subsequent send and/or receive operations on a socket, depending on the value of the how argument. RETURN VALUE Upon successful completion, shutdown() shall return 0; otherwise, -1 shall be returned and errno set to indicate the error. ERRORS The shutdown() function shall fail if: EBADF The socket argument is not a valid file descriptor. EINVAL The how argument is invalid. ENOTCONN The socket is not connected. ENOTSOCK The socket argument does not refer to a socket. The shutdown() function may fail if: ENOBUFS Insufficient resources were available in the system to perform the operation. The following sections are informative. EXAMPLES None. APPLICATION USAGE None. RATIONALE None. FUTURE DIRECTIONS None. SEE ALSO getsockopt(), pselect(), read(), recv(), recvfrom(), recvmsg(), send(), sendto(), setsockopt(), socket(), write() The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1-2017, COPYRIGHT Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html . Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html . IEEE/The Open Group 2017 SHUTDOWN(3P)