RMDIR(2) NetBSD Programmer's Manual RMDIR(2)Powered by man-cgi (2024-03-20). Maintained for NetBSD by Kimmo Suominen. Based on man-cgi by Panagiotis Christias.
NAME
rmdir - remove a directory file
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h> int rmdir(const char *path);
DESCRIPTION
rmdir() removes a directory file whose name is given by path. The direc- tory must not have any entries other than `.' and `..'.
RETURN VALUES
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: [ENOTDIR] A component of the path is not a directory. [ENAMETOOLONG] A component of a pathname exceeded {NAME_MAX} characters, or an entire path name exceeded {PATH_MAX} 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 `.' and `..' in it. [EACCES] Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix, or write permission is denied on the directory con- taining the link to be removed. [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. [EBUSY] The directory to be removed is the mount point for a mount- ed 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's allocated address space.
SEE ALSO
mkdir(2), unlink(2)
STANDARDS
The rmdir() function conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-1990 (``POSIX'').
HISTORY
The rmdir() function call appeared in 4.2BSD. NetBSD 1.5.1 June 4, 1993 1