Or there is read the manual page.
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RETURN VALUE
These calls return the number of bytes received, or -1 if an error occurred. In the event of an error, errno is set to indicate the error.
When a stream socket peer has performed an orderly shutdown, the return value will be 0 (the traditional "end-of-file" return).
Datagram sockets in various domains (e.g., the UNIX and Internet domains) permit zero-length datagrams. When such a datagram is received, the return value is 0.
The value 0 may also be returned if the requested number of bytes to receive from a stream socket was 0.
-1 would also evaluate to true in your code.