rmdir(2): rmdir - remove a directory file
RMDIR(2) | FreeBSD System Calls Manual | RMDIR(2) |
NAME
rmdir — remove a directory fileLIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)DESCRIPTION
The rmdir() system call removes a directory file whose name is given by path. The directory must not have any entries other than ‘.
' and ‘..
'.RETURN VALUES
The rmdir() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.ERRORS
The named file is removed unless:- [ENOTDIR]
- A component of the path is not a directory.
- [ENAMETOOLONG]
- A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
- [ENOENT]
- The named directory does not exist.
- [ELOOP]
- Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
- [ENOTEMPTY]
-
The named directory contains files other than ‘
.
' and ‘..
' in it. - [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.
- [EPERM]
- The directory to be removed has its immutable, undeletable or append-only flag set, see the chflags(2) manual page for more information.
- [EPERM]
- The parent directory of the directory to be removed has its immutable or append-only flag set.
- [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.
- [EINVAL]
-
The last component of the path is ‘
.
' or ‘..
'. - [EBUSY]
- The directory to be removed is the mount point for a mounted file system.
- [EIO]
- An I/O error occurred while deleting the directory entry or deallocating the inode.
- [EROFS]
- The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only file system.
- [EFAULT]
- The path argument points outside the process's allocated address space.
HISTORY
The rmdir() system call appeared in 4.2BSD.December 9, 2006 | FreeBSD 9.0 |
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