NAME shutdown - shut down part of a full-duplex connection CONTENTS Library Synopsis Description Return Values Errors See Also Standards History LIBRARY .Lb libc SYNOPSIS .In sys/types.h .In sys/socket.h int shutdown "int s" "int how" DESCRIPTION The shutdown system call causes all or part of a full-duplex connection on the socket associated with the file descriptor s to be shut down. The how argument specifies the type of shutdown. Possible values are: