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RMDIR

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (2)
Updated: 1993-07-24
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NAME

rmdir - delete a directory  

SYNOPSIS

#include <unistd.h>

int rmdir(const char *pathname);  

DESCRIPTION

rmdir deletes a directory, which must be empty.  

RETURN VALUE

On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.  

ERRORS

EPERM
The filesystem containing pathname does not support the removal of directories.
EFAULT
pathname points outside your accessible address space.
EACCES
Write access to the directory containing pathname was not allowed for the process's effective uid, or one of the directories in pathname did not allow search (execute) permission.
EPERM
The directory containing pathname has the sticky-bit (S_ISVTX) set and the process's effective uid is neither the uid of the file to be deleted nor that of the directory containing it.
ENAMETOOLONG
pathname was too long.
ENOENT
A directory component in pathname does not exist or is a dangling symbolic link.
ENOTDIR
pathname, or a component used as a directory in pathname, is not, in fact, a directory.
ENOTEMPTY
pathname contains entries other than . and .. .
EBUSY
pathname is the current working directory or root directory of some process.
ENOMEM
Insufficient kernel memory was available.
EROFS
pathname refers to a file on a read-only filesystem.
ELOOP
Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving pathname.
 

CONFORMING TO

SVr4, SVID, POSIX, BSD 4.3  

BUGS

Infelicities in the protocol underlying NFS can cause the unexpected disappearance of directories which are still being used.  

SEE ALSO

rename(2), mkdir(2), chdir(2), unlink(2), rmdir(1), rm(1)


 

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SYNOPSIS
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RETURN VALUE
ERRORS
CONFORMING TO
BUGS
SEE ALSO

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