PR_Shutdown

Shuts down part of a full-duplex connection on a specified socket.

Syntax

#include <prio.h>

PRStatus PR_Shutdown(
  PRFileDesc *fd,
  PRShutdownHow how);

Parameters

The function has the following parameters:

fd

A pointer to a PRFileDesc object representing a connected socket.

how

The kind of disallowed operations on the socket. Possible values include the following:

PR_SHUTDOWN_RCV. Further receives will be disallowed.

PR_SHUTDOWN_SEND. Further sends will be disallowed.

PR_SHUTDOWN_BOTH. Further sends and receives will be disallowed.

Returns

The function returns one of the following values:

Upon successful completion of shutdown request, PR_SUCCESS.
If unsuccessful, PR_FAILURE. Further information can be obtained by calling PR_GetError.

Description

The PRShutdownHow enumeration is defined as follows:

typedef enum PRShutdownHow{
  PR_SHUTDOWN_RCV = 0,
  PR_SHUTDOWN_SEND = 1,
  PR_SHUTDOWN_BOTH = 2
} PRShutdownHow;