RMDIR(2) BSD Programmer's Manual RMDIR(2)NAMErmdir - remove a directory file
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
int
rmdir(const char *path);
DESCRIPTIONrmdir() removes a directory file whose name is given by path. The direc-
tory 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 mount-
ed file system or the current directory.
[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 ALSOmkdir(2), unlink(2)HISTORY
The rmdir() function call appeared in 4.2BSD.
MirOS BSD #10-current June 4, 1993 1
