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#include <unistd.h>int rmdir(const char *path);
MSDOSFS, NFS_CLIENT, UFS
The rmdir system call removes a directory file whose name is given by path. The directory must not have any entries other than . (dot) and .. (dot, dot)
If successful, rmdir returns a value of 0, otherwie -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate one of the following error conditions..
A component of the path is not a directory.
The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set.
A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an entire pathname exceeded 1023 characters.
The directory named does not exist.
Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
The named directory contains files other than . and .. in it.
Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
Write permission is denied on the directory containing the link to be removed.
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.
The directory to be removed is the mount point for a mounted file system.
An I/O error occurred while deleting the directory entry or deallocating the inode.
The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only file system.
path points outside the process's allocated address space.
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
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Interface Stability | Evolving |
This function call appeared in 4.2 BSD.
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