Managing & Using MySQL, 2nd Edition

Name

mysql_shutdown —

Synopsis

int mysql_shutdown(MYSQL *mysql)

Shuts down the MySQL database server. The user must have Shutdown privileges on the current connection to use this function. The function returns 0 if the operation was successful and nonzero in the case of an error.

Example

if ( mysql_shutdown(&mysql) ) {
       printf("Server not shut down... Check your permissions...\n");
} else {
       printf("Server successfully shut down!\n");
}