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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)rmdir.2     6.3 (Berkeley) 8/26/85
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH RMDIR 2 "August 26, 1985"
        !             8: .UC 5
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: rmdir \- remove a directory file
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .nf
        !            13: .ft B
        !            14: rmdir(path)
        !            15: char *path;
        !            16: .fi
        !            17: .ft R
        !            18: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            19: .I Rmdir
        !            20: removes a directory file
        !            21: whose name is given by
        !            22: .I path.
        !            23: The directory must not have any entries other
        !            24: than \*(lq.\*(rq and \*(lq..\*(rq.
        !            25: .SH "RETURN VALUE
        !            26: A 0 is returned if the remove succeeds; otherwise a \-1 is
        !            27: returned and an error code is stored in the global location \fIerrno\fP\|.
        !            28: .SH ERRORS
        !            29: The named file is removed unless one or more of the
        !            30: following are true:
        !            31: .TP 15
        !            32: [ENOTDIR]
        !            33: A component of the path is not a directory.
        !            34: .TP 15
        !            35: [EINVAL]
        !            36: The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set.
        !            37: .TP 15
        !            38: [ENAMETOOLONG]
        !            39: A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
        !            40: or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
        !            41: .TP 15
        !            42: [ENOENT]
        !            43: The named directory does not exist.
        !            44: .TP 15
        !            45: [ELOOP]
        !            46: Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
        !            47: .TP 15
        !            48: [ENOTEMPTY]
        !            49: The named directory contains files other than ``.'' and ``..'' in it.
        !            50: .TP 15
        !            51: [EACCES]
        !            52: Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
        !            53: .TP 15
        !            54: [EACCES]
        !            55: Write permission is denied on the directory containing the link
        !            56: to be removed.
        !            57: .TP 15
        !            58: [EPERM]
        !            59: The directory containing the directory to be removed is marked sticky,
        !            60: and neither the containing directory nor the directory to be removed
        !            61: are owned by the effective user ID.
        !            62: .TP 15
        !            63: [EBUSY]
        !            64: The directory to be removed is the mount point
        !            65: for a mounted file system.
        !            66: .TP 15
        !            67: [EIO]
        !            68: An I/O error occurred while deleting the directory entry
        !            69: or deallocating the inode.
        !            70: .TP 15
        !            71: [EROFS]
        !            72: The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only file system.
        !            73: .TP 15
        !            74: [EFAULT]
        !            75: .I Path
        !            76: points outside the process's allocated address space.
        !            77: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            78: mkdir(2), unlink(2)

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