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When you have finished using a socket, you can simply close its
file descriptor with close
; see Opening and Closing Files.
If there is still data waiting to be transmitted over the connection,
normally close
tries to complete this transmission. You
can control this behavior using the SO_LINGER
socket option to
specify a timeout period; see Socket Options.
You can also shut down only reception or transmission on a
connection by calling shutdown
, which is declared in
sys/socket.h
.
int shutdown (int socket, int how) | Function |
The shutdown function shuts down the connection of socket
socket. The argument how specifies what action to
perform:
The return value is
|