NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     rmdir - remove a directory file

LIBRARY    [Toc]    [Back]

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     #include <unistd.h>

     int
     rmdir(const char *path);

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

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

RETURN VALUES    [Toc]    [Back]

     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    [Toc]    [Back]

     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 containing 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
                        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 readonly
 file system.

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

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     mkdir(2), unlink(2)

STANDARDS    [Toc]    [Back]

     The rmdir() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 (``POSIX.1'').

HISTORY    [Toc]    [Back]

     The rmdir() function call appeared in 4.2BSD.

BSD                              June 4, 1993                              BSD