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X/Open Networking Services Library Functionsshutdown(3XNET)


NAME

 shutdown - shut down socket send and receive operations

SYNOPSIS

 
cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lxnet [ library ... ]
#include <sys/socket.h> 
int shutdown(int socket, int how);

DESCRIPTION

 

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 VALUES

 

Upon successful completion, shutdown() returns 0. Otherwise, -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

 

The shutdown() function will 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.
ENOSR
There were insufficient STREAMS resources available for the operation to complete.

ATTRIBUTES

 

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
MT-LevelMT-Safe

SEE ALSO

 

getsockopt(3XNET), recv(3XNET), recvfrom(3XNET), recvmsg(3XNET), select(3C), send(3XNET), sendto(3XNET), setsockopt(3XNET), socket(3XNET), attributes(5)


SunOS 5.9Go To TopLast Changed 8 May 1998

 
      
      
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