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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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