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Manual Reference Pages  - RMDIR (2)

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rmdir - delete a directory

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Synopsis
Description
Errors
Bugs

#include <unistd.h>

int rmdir(const char *pathname);

rmdir deletes a directory, which must be empty.

On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.

EPERM	The filesystem containing pathname does not support the removal of directories.
EFAULT	pathname points outside your accessible address space.
EACCES	Write access to the directory containing pathname was not allowed for the process’s effective uid, or one of the directories in pathname did not allow search (execute) permission.
EPERM	The directory containing pathname has the sticky-bit (S_ISVTX) set and the process’s effective uid is neither the uid of the file to be deleted nor that of the directory containing it.
ENAMETOOLONG
	pathname was too long.
ENOENT	A directory component in pathname does not exist or is a dangling symbolic link.
ENOTDIR
	pathname, or a component used as a directory in pathname, is not, in fact, a directory.
ENOTEMPTY
	pathname contains entries other than . and .. .
EINVAL	pathname has . as last component.
EBUSY	pathname is the current working directory or root directory of some process.
ENOMEM	Insufficient kernel memory was available.
EROFS	pathname refers to a file on a read-only filesystem.
ELOOP	Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving pathname.

SVr4, SVID, POSIX, BSD 4.3

Infelicities in the protocol underlying NFS can cause the unexpected disappearance of directories which are still being used.

rename(2), mkdir(2), chdir(2), unlink(2), rmdir(1), rm(1)

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