kernel_sock_shutdown(9)

💖 kernel_sock_shutdown(9) 💖

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual corner, bestie — this one is literally about shutting down part of a full-duplex connection, but make it kernel space ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

kernel_sock_shutdown — shut down part of a full-duplex connection (kernel space) 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int kernel_sock_shutdown (struct socket *sock , enum sock_shutdown_cmd
       how );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• sock — socket 🧦
• how — connection part 🎛️

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Returns 0 or an error. that's it. that's the whole entire description, no cap 😭✨

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay the see-also friend group is huge, like genuinely iconic levels of linked-list energy 🫶

• Kernel file ./net/socket.c
• move_addr_to_kernel(9)
• move_addr_to_user(9)
• sock_read_xattr(9)
• sock_alloc_file(9)
• sock_from_file(9)
• sockfd_lookup(9)
• sock_alloc(9)
• sock_release(9)
• sock_sendmsg(9)
• kernel_sendmsg(9)
• sock_recvmsg(9)
• kernel_recvmsg(9)
• sock_create_lite(9)
• __sock_create(9)
• sock_create(9)
• sock_create_kern(9)
• sock_register(9)
• sock_unregister(9)
• kernel_bind(9)
• kernel_listen(9)
• kernel_accept(9)
• kernel_connect(9)
• kernel_getsockname(9)
• kernel_getpeername(9)
• kernel_sock_ip_overhead(9)

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mwah 💋 — source/version situation is ./net, date is October 2026, and yes bestie this is still kernel_sock_shutdown(9) to the very end 🫶✨