rmdir(2)							   System Calls 							  rmdir(2)

NAME

       rmdir - remove a directory

SYNOPSIS

       #include <unistd.h>

       int rmdir(const char *path);

DESCRIPTION

       The  rmdir()  function  removes the directory named by the path name pointed to by path. The directory must not have any entries other than
       "." and "..".

       If the directory's link count becomes 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 "." and ".."
       entries, if present, are removed before rmdir() returns and no new entries may be created in  the  directory,  but  the	directory  is  not
       removed until all references to the directory have been closed.

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

RETURN VALUES

       Upon  successful  completion,  0 is returned. Otherwise, -1 is returned, errno is set to indicate the error, and the named directory is not
       changed.

ERRORS

       The rmdir() function will fail if:

       EACCES		       Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix and {PRIV_FILE_DAC_SEARCH} is not  asserted  in  the
			       effective set of the calling process

			       Write permission is denied on the directory containing the directory to be removed and {PRIV_FILE_DAC_WRITE} is not
			       asserted.

			       The parent directory has the S_ISVTX variable set, is not owned by the user, and {PRIV_FILE_OWNER} is not asserted.

			       The directory is not owned by the user and is not writable by the user.

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

       EEXIST		       The directory contains entries other than those for "." and "..".

       EFAULT		       The path argument points to an illegal address.

       EINVAL		       The directory to be removed is the current directory, or the final component of path is ".".

       EIO		       An I/O error occurred while accessing the file system.

       ELOOP		       Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating path.

       ENAMETOOLONG	       The length of the path argument exceeds PATH_MAX, or  the  length  of  a  path  component  exceeds  NAME_MAX  while
			       _POSIX_NO_TRUNC is in effect.

       ENOENT		       The named directory does not exist or is the null pathname.

       ENOLINK		       The path argument points to a remote machine, and the connection to that machine is no longer active.

       ENOTDIR		       A component of the path prefix is not a directory.

       EROFS		       The directory entry to be removed is part of a read-only file system.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |MT-Level		     |Async-Signal-Safe 	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       mkdir(1), rm(1), mkdir(2), attributes(5), privileges(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.10							    28 Dec 1996 							  rmdir(2)