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RMDIR(2) Linux Programmer's Manual RMDIR(2)
rmdir - delete a directory
#include <unistd.h>
int rmdir(const char *pathname);
rmdir() deletes a directory, which must be empty.
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is
set appropriately.
EACCES Write access to the directory containing pathname was not
allowed, or one of the directories in the path prefix of
pathname did not allow search permission. (See also
path_resolution(7).
EBUSY pathname is currently in use by the system or some process
that prevents its removal. On Linux, this means pathname is
currently used as a mount point or is the root directory of
the calling process.
EFAULT pathname points outside your accessible address space.
EINVAL pathname has . as last component.
ELOOP Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving
pathname.
ENAMETOOLONG
pathname was too long.
ENOENT A directory component in pathname does not exist or is a
dangling symbolic link.
ENOMEM Insufficient kernel memory was available.
ENOTDIR
pathname, or a component used as a directory in pathname, is
not, in fact, a directory.
ENOTEMPTY
pathname contains entries other than . and .. ; or, pathname
has .. as its final component. POSIX.1 also allows EEXIST
for this condition.
EPERM The directory containing pathname has the sticky bit (S_ISVTX)
set and the process's effective user ID is neither the user ID
of the file to be deleted nor that of the directory containing
it, and the process is not privileged (Linux: does not have
the CAP_FOWNER capability).
EPERM The filesystem containing pathname does not support the
removal of directories.
EROFS pathname refers to a directory on a read-only filesystem.
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
Infelicities in the protocol underlying NFS can cause the unexpected
disappearance of directories which are still being used.
rm(1), rmdir(1), chdir(2), chmod(2), mkdir(2), rename(2), unlink(2),
unlinkat(2)
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Linux 2015-08-08 RMDIR(2)
Pages that refer to this page: fcntl(2), mkdir(2), syscalls(2), unlink(2), remove(3), cpuset(7), mount_namespaces(7), signal-safety(7), symlink(7)