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.Dd 
.Dt RMDIR 2
.Os BSD 4.2
.Sh NAME
.Nm rmdir
.Nd remove a directory file
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <unistd.h>
.Ft int
.Fn rmdir "const char *path"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Fn Rmdir
removes a directory file
whose name is given by
.Fa path .
The directory must not have any entries other
than
.Ql \&.
and
.Ql \&.. .
.Sh 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
.Va errno .
.Sh ERRORS
The named file is removed unless:
.Bl -tag -width [ENAMETOOLONG]
.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
A component of the path is not a directory.
.It Bq Er EINVAL
The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set.
.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
.It Bq Er ENOENT
The named directory does not exist.
.It Bq Er ELOOP
Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
.It Bq Er ENOTEMPTY
The named directory contains files other than
.Ql \&.
and
.Ql \&..
in it.
.It Bq Er EACCES
Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
.It Bq Er EACCES
Write permission is denied on the directory containing the link
to be removed.
.It Bq Er 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.
.It Bq Er EBUSY
The directory to be removed is the mount point
for a mounted file system.
.It Bq Er EIO
An I/O error occurred while deleting the directory entry
or deallocating the inode.
.It Bq Er EROFS
The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only file system.
.It Bq Er EFAULT
.Fa Path
points outside the process's allocated address space.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mkdir 2 ,
.Xr unlink 2
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
function call appeared in
.Bx 4.2 .