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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
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        !            18: .\"    @(#)rmdir.2     6.5 (Berkeley) 6/23/90
        !            19: .\"
        !            20: .TH RMDIR 2 "June 23, 1990"
        !            21: .UC 5
        !            22: .SH NAME
        !            23: rmdir \- remove a directory file
        !            24: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            25: .nf
        !            26: .ft B
        !            27: rmdir(path)
        !            28: char *path;
        !            29: .fi
        !            30: .ft R
        !            31: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            32: .I Rmdir
        !            33: removes a directory file
        !            34: whose name is given by
        !            35: .I path.
        !            36: The directory must not have any entries other
        !            37: than \*(lq.\*(rq and \*(lq..\*(rq.
        !            38: .SH "RETURN VALUE
        !            39: A 0 is returned if the remove succeeds; otherwise a \-1 is
        !            40: returned and an error code is stored in the global location \fIerrno\fP\|.
        !            41: .SH ERRORS
        !            42: The named file is removed unless one or more of the
        !            43: following are true:
        !            44: .TP 15
        !            45: [ENOTDIR]
        !            46: A component of the path is not a directory.
        !            47: .TP 15
        !            48: [EINVAL]
        !            49: The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set.
        !            50: .TP 15
        !            51: [ENAMETOOLONG]
        !            52: A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
        !            53: or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
        !            54: .TP 15
        !            55: [ENOENT]
        !            56: The named directory does not exist.
        !            57: .TP 15
        !            58: [ELOOP]
        !            59: Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
        !            60: .TP 15
        !            61: [ENOTEMPTY]
        !            62: The named directory contains files other than ``.'' and ``..'' in it.
        !            63: .TP 15
        !            64: [EACCES]
        !            65: Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
        !            66: .TP 15
        !            67: [EACCES]
        !            68: Write permission is denied on the directory containing the link
        !            69: to be removed.
        !            70: .TP 15
        !            71: [EPERM]
        !            72: The directory containing the directory to be removed is marked sticky,
        !            73: and neither the containing directory nor the directory to be removed
        !            74: are owned by the effective user ID.
        !            75: .TP 15
        !            76: [EBUSY]
        !            77: The directory to be removed is the mount point
        !            78: for a mounted file system.
        !            79: .TP 15
        !            80: [EIO]
        !            81: An I/O error occurred while deleting the directory entry
        !            82: or deallocating the inode.
        !            83: .TP 15
        !            84: [EROFS]
        !            85: The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only file system.
        !            86: .TP 15
        !            87: [EFAULT]
        !            88: .I Path
        !            89: points outside the process's allocated address space.
        !            90: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            91: mkdir(2), unlink(2)

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