SYNOPSIS

int zmq_close (void *socket);

DESCRIPTION

The zmq_close() function shall destroy the socket referenced by the socket argument. All active connections on the socket shall be terminated and resources associated with the socket shall be released. Any outstanding messages sent with zmq_send() but not yet physically sent to the network shall be dropped. Likewise, any outstanding messages physically received from the network but not yet received by the application with zmq_recv() shall also be dropped.

RETURN VALUE

The zmq_close() function shall return zero if successful. Otherwise it shall return -1 and set errno to one of the values defined below.

ERRORS

EFAULT

The provided socket was not valid (NULL).

SEE ALSO

zmq_socket(3) zmq_term(3) zmq(7)

AUTHORS

The ØMQ documentation was written by Martin Sustrik <sustrik@250bpm.com> and Martin Lucina <mato@kotelna.sk>.