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rmdir (2)

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Name

rmdir - remove a directory file

Synopsis

#include <unistd.h>

int
rmdir(const char *path);

Description

Rmdir() removes a directory file whose name is given by path. The directory must not have any entries other than `.' and `..'.

Return Values

A 0 is returned if the remove succeeds; otherwise a -1 is returned and an error code is stored in the global location errno.

Errors

The named file is removed unless:

[ENOTDIR]
A component of the path is not a directory.

[ENAMETOOLONG]
A component of a pathname exceeded {NAME_MAX} characters, or an entire path name exceeded {PATH_MAX} characters.

[ENOENT]
The named directory does not exist.

[ELOOP]
Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.

[ENOTEMPTY]
The named directory contains files other than `.' and `..' in it.

[EACCES]
Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.

[EACCES]
Write permission is denied on the directory containing the link to be removed.

[EPERM]
The directory containing the directory to be removed is marked sticky, and neither the containing directory nor the directory to be removed are owned by the effective user ID.

[EBUSY]
The directory to be removed is the mount point for a mounted file system.

[EIO]
An I/O error occurred while deleting the directory entry or deallocating the inode.

[EROFS]
The directory entry to be removed resides on a readonly file system.

[EFAULT]
Path points outside the process's allocated address space.

See Also

mkdir(2) , unlink(2)

History

The rmdir() function call appeared in 4.2BSD.

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