RMDIR(2) BSD System Calls Manual RMDIR(2)
NAME
rmdir -- remove a directory file
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
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, or 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 direc-
tory 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 read-only file system.
[EFAULT] path points outside the process's allocated address space.
SEE ALSO
mkdir(2), unlink(2)
STANDARDS
The rmdir() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 (``POSIX.1'').
HISTORY
The rmdir() function call appeared in 4.2BSD.
BSD
June 4, 1993 BSD
