rmdir (2)

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(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man2/rmdir.2freebsd".)

NAME

rmdir - remove a directory file

LIBRARY

Lb libc

SYNOPSIS

In unistd.h Ft int Fn rmdir const char *path

DESCRIPTION

The Fn rmdir system call removes a directory file whose name is given by Fa path . The directory must not have any entries other than `.' and `..'

RETURN VALUES

Rv -std rmdir

ERRORS

The named file is removed unless:

Bq Er ENOTDIR

A component of the path is not a directory.

Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG

A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.

Bq Er ENOENT

The named directory does not exist.

Bq Er ELOOP

Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.

Bq Er ENOTEMPTY

The named directory contains files other than `.' and `..' in it.

Bq Er EACCES

Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.

Bq Er EACCES

Write permission is denied on the directory containing the link to be removed.

Bq Er EPERM

The directory to be removed has its immutable, undeletable or append-only flag set, see the chflags(2) manual page for more information.

Bq Er EPERM

The parent directory of the directory to be removed has its immutable or append-only flag set.

Bq Er 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.

Bq Er EINVAL

The last component of the path is `.' or `..'

Bq Er EBUSY

The directory to be removed is the mount point for a mounted file system.

Bq Er EIO

An I/O error occurred while deleting the directory entry or deallocating the inode.

Bq Er EROFS

The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only file system.

Bq Er EFAULT

The Fa path argument points outside the process's allocated address space.

SEE ALSO

mkdir(2), unlink(2)

HISTORY

The Fn rmdir system call appeared in BSD 4.2