rmdir(2)							System Calls Manual							  rmdir(2)

NAME

       rmdir - Removes a directory file

SYNOPSIS

       #include <unistd.h>

       int rmdir (	const char *path );

STANDARDS

       Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry standards as follows:

       rmdir(): XSH5.0

       Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about industry standards and associated tags.

PARAMETERS

       Specifies the directory pathname.  The final component of the path parameter cannot be a symbolic link.

DESCRIPTION

       The rmdir() function removes the directory specified by the path parameter.  The directory is removed only if it is an empty directory.

       For  the rmdir() function to execute successfully, the calling process must have write access to the parent directory of the path parameter
       with respect to all of the system's access control policies.

       If the directory's link count becomes 0 (zero) and no process has the directory open, the space occupied by the directory is freed and  the
       directory  is  no  longer  accessible.	If one or more processes have the directory open when the last link is removed, the . (dot) and ..
       (dot-dot) entries, if present, are removed before the rmdir() function returns, and no new entries may be created in the  directory.   How-
       ever, the directory is not removed until all references to the directory have been closed.

       Upon successful completion, the rmdir() function marks the st_ctime and st_mtime fields of the parent directory for update.

RETURN VALUES

       Upon  successful completion, the rmdir() function returns a value of 0 (zero). If the rmdir() function fails, a value of -1 is returned and
       errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

       If the rmdir() function fails, the directory is not deleted and errno may be set to one of  the	following  values:  Search  permission	is
       denied  on  a  component  of the path parameter, or write permission is denied on the parent directory of the directory to be removed.  The
       process does not have write access to the parent directory with respect to one of the system's access control policies.	The  directory	is
       in use as either the mount point for a file system or the current directory of the process that issued the rmdir() function.  The directory
       named by the path parameter is not empty.  The path parameter is an invalid address.  While reading from or writing to the file system,	an
       I/O error occurred.  Too many links were encountered in translating path.  The length of the path parameter exceeds PATH_MAX, or a pathname
       component is longer than NAME_MAX.  The directory named by the path parameter does not exist or is an empty string.   A	component  of  the
       path  parameter	is not a directory.  The S_ISVTX flag is set on the parent directory of the directory to be removed, and the caller is not
       the file owner.	The directory named by the path parameter resides on a read-only file system.

       [Tru64 UNIX]  For NFS file access, if the rmdir() function fails, errno may also be set to one of the following values: The  file  position
       pointer	associated  with  the  filedes parameter was negative.	Indicates either that the system file table is full, or that there are too
       many files currently open in the system.  Indicates a stale NFS file handle.  An opened file was deleted by the server or another client; a
       client  cannot  open  a	file because the server has unmounted or unexported the remote directory; or the directory that contains an opened
       file was either unmounted or unexported by the server.

RELATED INFORMATION

       Functions: chmod(2), mkdir(2), mknod(2), rename(2), umask(2), unlink(2), mkfifo(3), remove(3)

       Standards: standards(5) delim off

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