rmdir()

NAME

rmdir() - remove a directory

SYNOPSIS

#include <unistd.h>

int rmdir (const char *path)

DESCRIPTION

The rmdir(2) function removes a directory whose name is given by path. The directory must not have any entries other than dot (.) and dot-dot (..).

The rmdir(2) function will fail if path specifies the root directory.

RETURN VALUES

A 0 is returned if the remove succeeds; otherwise a -1 is returned and an error code is stored in the global location errno.

ERRORS

The named directory is removed unless:

[EACCES]
Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
[EACCES]
Write permission is denied on the directory containing the link to be removed.
[EBUSY]
The directory named by path was either the root directory or it was the working directory of a process.
[EBUSY]
The directory to be removed is the mount point for a mounted file system.
[EINVAL]
The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set.
[EIO]
An I/O error occurred while deleting the directory entry or deallocating the file serial number.
[EFAULT]
Path points outside the process's allocated address space.
[ELOOP]
Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
[ENAMETOOLONG]
A component of a pathname exceeded {NAME_MAX} characters, or an entire pathname exceeded {PATH_MAX} characters.
[ENOENT]
The named directory does not exist.
[ENOTDIR]
A component of the path is not a directory.
[ENOTEMPTY]
The named directory contains files other than . and .. in it.
[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.
[EROFS]
The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only file system.

SEE ALSO

mkdir(2)

unlink(2)