NAME

     shutdown — disable sends and/or receives on a socket

LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <sys/types.h>
     #include <sys/socket.h>

     int
     shutdown(int s, int how);

DESCRIPTION

     The shutdown() system call disables sends or receives on a socket.  The how argument
     specifies the type of shutdown.  Possible values are:

     SHUT_RD    Further receives will be disallowed.

     SHUT_WR    Further sends will be disallowed.  This may cause actions specific to the
                protocol family of the socket s to happen; see IMPLEMENTATION NOTES.

     SHUT_RDWR  Further sends and receives will be disallowed.  Implies SHUT_WR.

     If the file descriptor s is associated with a SOCK_STREAM socket, all or part of the full-
     duplex connection will be shut down.

IMPLEMENTATION NOTES

     The following protocol specific actions apply to the use of SHUT_WR (and potentially also
     SHUT_RDWR), based on the properties of the socket associated with the file descriptor s.

     Domain      Type           Protocol        Action
     PF_INET     SOCK_DGRAM     IPPROTO_SCTP    Failure, as socket is not connected.
     PF_INET     SOCK_DGRAM     IPPROTO_UDP     Failure, as socket is not connected.
     PF_INET     SOCK_STREAM    IPPROTO_SCTP    Send queued data and tear down association.
     PF_INET     SOCK_STREAM    IPPROTO_TCP     Send queued data, wait for ACK, then send FIN.
     PF_INET6    SOCK_DGRAM     IPPROTO_SCTP    Failure, as socket is not connected.
     PF_INET6    SOCK_DGRAM     IPPROTO_UDP     Failure, as socket is not connected.
     PF_INET6    SOCK_STREAM    IPPROTO_SCTP    Send queued data and tear down association.
     PF_INET6    SOCK_STREAM    IPPROTO_TCP     Send queued data, wait for ACK, then send FIN.

RETURN VALUES

     The shutdown() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is
     returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

     The shutdown() system call fails if:

     [EBADF]            The s argument is not a valid file descriptor.

     [EINVAL]           The how argument is invalid.

     [ENOTCONN]         The s argument specifies a socket which is not connected.

     [ENOTSOCK]         The s argument does not refer to a socket.

SEE ALSO

     connect(2), socket(2), inet(4), inet6(4)

STANDARDS

     The shutdown() system call is expected to comply with IEEE Std 1003.1g-2000 (“POSIX.1”),
     when finalized.

HISTORY

     The shutdown() system call appeared in 4.2BSD.  The SHUT_RD, SHUT_WR, and SHUT_RDWR
     constants appeared in IEEE Std 1003.1g-2000 (“POSIX.1”).

AUTHORS

     This manual page was updated by Bruce M. Simpson <bms@FreeBSD.org> to reflect how shutdown()
     behaves with PF_INET and PF_INET6 sockets.

BUGS

     The ICMP “port unreachable” message should be generated in response to datagrams received on
     a local port to which s is bound after shutdown() is called.