rmdir

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
       EPERM  The filesystem containing pathname does not support the removal
	      of directories.

       EFAULT pathname points outside your accessible address space.

       EACCES Write  access  to	 the  directory	 containing  pathname was not
	      allowed for the process’s effective uid, or one of the directo-
	      ries in pathname did not allow search (execute) permission.

       EPERM  The  directory containing pathname has the sticky-bit (S_ISVTX)
	      set and the process’s effective uid is neither the uid  of  the
	      file to be deleted nor that of the directory containing it.

       ENAMETOOLONG
	      pathname was too long.

       ENOENT A	 directory  component in pathname does not exist or is a dan-
	      gling symbolic link.

       ENOTDIR
	      pathname, or a component used as a directory  in	pathname,  is
	      not, in fact, a directory.

       ENOTEMPTY
	      pathname contains entries other than . and .. .

       EINVAL pathname has .  as last component.

       EBUSY  pathname	is the current working directory or root directory of
	      some process.

       ENOMEM Insufficient kernel memory was available.

       EROFS  pathname refers to a file on a read-only filesystem.

       ELOOP  Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving pathname.

CONFORMING TO
       SVr4, SVID, POSIX, BSD 4.3

BUGS
       Infelicities  in	 the protocol underlying NFS can cause the unexpected
       disappearance of directories which are still being used.

SEE ALSO
       rename(2), mkdir(2), chdir(2), unlink(2), rmdir(1), rm(1)



Linux 0.99.7			  1993-07-24			     RMDIR(2)