NAME
rmdir() — remove a directory file
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
int rmdir(const char *path);
DESCRIPTION
The
rmdir()
system call removes a directory file whose name is given by
path.
The directory must be empty (except for the files
.
and
..)
before it can be removed.
RETURN VALUE
rmdir()
returns the following values:
- 0
Successful completion.
- -1
Failure.
errno
is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
If
rmdir()
fails,
errno
is set to one of the following values.
- [EACCES]
A component of the path prefix denies search permission.
- [EACCES]
Write permission is denied on the directory
containing the link to be removed.
- [EACCES]
The process does not have read/write access permission
to the parent directory.
- [EBUSY]
The directory to be removed is the mount point
for a mounted file system.
- [EBUSY]
The path is the current working directory.
- [EEXIST]
The named directory is not empty.
It contains files other than
.
and
...
- [EFAULT]
path
points outside the process's allocated address space.
The reliable detection of this error is implementation-dependent.
- [ELOOP]
Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the path name.
- [ENAMETOOLONG]
The length of the specified path name exceeds
PATH_MAX
bytes, or the length of a component of the path name exceeds
NAME_MAX
bytes while
_POSIX_NO_TRUNC
is in effect.
- [ENOENT]
The named file does not exist.
- [ENOTDIR]
A component of the path is not a directory.
- [EPERM]
The directory containing the directory to be removed
has the sticky bit set
and neither the containing directory nor the directory to be removed
are owned by the effective user ID.
- [EROFS]
The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only file system.
AUTHOR
rmdir()
was developed by the University of California, Berkeley and HP.
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
rmdir(): AES, SVID2, SVID3, XPG3, XPG4, FIPS 151-2, POSIX.1
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