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- .Dd March 30, 2020
- .Dt RMDIR 2
- .Os
- .Sh NAME
- .Nm rmdir
- .Nd remove a directory file
- .Sh LIBRARY
- .Lb libc
- .Sh SYNOPSIS
- .In unistd.h
- .Ft int
- .Fn rmdir "const char *path"
- .Sh 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
- .Ql .\&
- and
- .Ql \&.. .
- .Sh RETURN VALUES
- .Rv -std rmdir
- .Sh ERRORS
- The named file is removed unless:
- .Bl -tag -width Er
- .It Bq Er ENOTDIR
- A component of the path is not a directory.
- .It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
- A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
- or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
- .It Bq Er ENOENT
- The named directory does not exist.
- .It Bq Er ELOOP
- Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
- .It Bq Er ENOTEMPTY
- The named directory contains files other than
- .Ql .\&
- and
- .Ql ..\&
- in it.
- .It Bq Er EACCES
- Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
- .It Bq Er EACCES
- Write permission is denied on the directory containing the link
- to be removed.
- .It Bq Er EPERM
- The directory to be removed has its immutable, undeletable or append-only flag
- set, see the
- .Xr chflags 2
- manual page for more information.
- .It Bq Er EPERM
- The parent directory of the directory to be removed has its immutable or
- append-only flag set.
- .It 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.
- .It Bq Er EINVAL
- The last component of the path is
- .Ql .\&
- or
- .Ql .. .
- .It Bq Er EBUSY
- The directory to be removed is the mount point
- for a mounted file system.
- .It Bq Er EIO
- An I/O error occurred while deleting the directory entry
- or deallocating the inode.
- .It Bq Er EINTEGRITY
- Corrupted data was detected while reading from the file system.
- .It Bq Er EROFS
- The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only file system.
- .It Bq Er EFAULT
- The
- .Fa path
- argument
- points outside the process's allocated address space.
- .El
- .Sh SEE ALSO
- .Xr mkdir 2 ,
- .Xr unlink 2
- .Sh HISTORY
- The
- .Fn rmdir
- system call appeared in
- .Bx 4.2 .
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