shutdown - shut down part of a full-duplex connection
Contents
Bugs
Checks for the validity of how are done in domain-specific code, and before Linux 3.7 not all domains
performed these checks. Most notably, UNIX domain sockets simply ignored invalid values. This problem
was fixed for UNIX domain sockets in Linux 3.7.
Description
The shutdown() call causes all or part of a full-duplex connection on the socket associated with sockfd
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.
Errors
EBADFsockfd is not a valid file descriptor.
EINVAL An invalid value was specified in how (but see BUGS).
ENOTCONN
The specified socket is not connected.
ENOTSOCK
The file descriptor sockfd does not refer to a socket.
History
POSIX.1-2001, 4.4BSD (first appeared in 4.2BSD).
Library
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
Name
shutdown - shut down part of a full-duplex connection
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.
Return Value
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.
See Also
close(2), connect(2), socket(2), socket(7) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 shutdown(2)
Standards
POSIX.1-2008.
Synopsis
#include<sys/socket.h>intshutdown(intsockfd,inthow);
