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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
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                     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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