RMDIR(2)                             BSD                              RMDIR(2)



NAME
     rmdir - remove a directory file

SYNOPSIS
     rmdir(path)
     char *path;

DESCRIPTION
     rmdir removes a directory file whose name is given by path. The directory
     must not have any entries other than dot (.) and dot-dot (..).

ERRORS
     The named file is removed unless one or more of the following are true:

     [ENOTDIR]        A component of the path is not a directory.

     [ENAMETOOLONG]   A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an
                      entire pathname exceeded 1023 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 dot (.)
                      and dot-dot (..) 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.

     [EBUSY]          The directory to be removed is the mount point for a
                      mounted file system.

     [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' allocated address
                      space.

SEE ALSO
     mkdir(2), unlink(2)

DIAGNOSTICS
     A 0 is returned if the remove succeeds; otherwise, a -1 is returned and
     an error code is stored in the global location errno.

NOTES
     The following errors, not returned under Domain/OS BSD, may be returned
     under other implementations:

     [EINVAL]         The pathname contains a character with the high-order
                      bit set.

     [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.