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 “.” and “..”. 

RETURN VALUE

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

ERRORS

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

[ENOTEMPTY]
The named directory contains files other than “.” and “..” in it.

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

[ENOENT] The pathname was too long. 

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

[ENOENT] The named file does not exist. 

[EACCES] A component of the path prefix denies search permission. 

[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. 

[EROFS] The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only file system. 

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

[ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. 

[EIO] An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system. 

SEE ALSO

mkdir(2), unlink(2)

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