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RMDIR(2) Linux Programmer's Manual RMDIR(2)
NAME
rmdir - delete a directory
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
int rmdir(const char *pathname);
DESCRIPTION
rmdir() deletes a directory, which must be empty.
RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.
ERRORS
EACCES Write access to the directory containing pathname was not allowed, or one of the
directories in the path prefix of pathname did not allow search permission. (See
also path_resolution(7).
EBUSY pathname is currently in use by the system or some process that prevents its
removal. On Linux this means pathname is currently used as a mount point or is the
root directory of the calling process.
EFAULT pathname points outside your accessible address space.
EINVAL pathname has . as last component.
ELOOP Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving pathname.
ENAMETOOLONG
pathname was too long.
ENOENT A directory component in pathname does not exist or is a dangling symbolic link.
ENOMEM Insufficient kernel memory was available.
ENOTDIR
pathname, or a component used as a directory in pathname, is not, in fact, a direcā
tory.
ENOTEMPTY
pathname contains entries other than . and .. ; or, pathname has .. as its final
component. POSIX.1-2001 also allows EEXIST for this condition.
EPERM The directory containing pathname has the sticky bit (S_ISVTX) set and the
process's effective user ID is neither the user ID of the file to be deleted nor
that of the directory containing it, and the process is not privileged (Linux: does
not have the CAP_FOWNER capability).
EPERM The filesystem containing pathname does not support the removal of directories.
EROFS pathname refers to a directory on a read-only filesystem.
CONFORMING TO
SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
BUGS
Infelicities in the protocol underlying NFS can cause the unexpected disappearance of
directories which are still being used.
SEE ALSO
rm(1), rmdir(1), chdir(2), chmod(2), mkdir(2), rename(2), unlink(2), unlinkat(2)
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.74 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the
project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be
found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
Linux 2008-05-08 RMDIR(2)
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