RMDIR(2) — Stardent Computer Inc. (System Calls)

NAME

rmdir − remove a directory

int rmdir (path)
char ∗path;

rmdir removes the directory named by the path name pointed to by path. The directory must not have any entries other than "." and "..".

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

[EINVAL] The current directory may not be removed.

[EINVAL] The "." entry of a directory may not be removed.

[EEXIST] The directory contains entries other than those for "." and "..".

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

[ENOENT] The named directory does not exist.

[EACCES] Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.

[EACCES] Write permission is denied on the directory containing the directory to be removed.

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

[EROFS] The directory entry to be removed is part of a read-only file system.

[EFAULT] path points outside the process’s allocated address space.

[EIO] An I/O error occurred while accessing the file system.

[ENOLINK] path points to a remote machine, and the link to that machine is no longer active.

[EMULTIHOP] Components of path require hopping to multiple remote machines.

Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise, a value of −1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.