1.\" $OpenBSD: rmdir.2,v 1.10 2008/10/24 14:34:39 jmc Exp $ 2.\" $NetBSD: rmdir.2,v 1.7 1995/02/27 12:36:30 cgd Exp $ 3.\" 4.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993 5.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 16.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 17.\" without specific prior written permission. 18.\" 19.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 20.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 21.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 22.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 23.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 24.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 25.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 26.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 27.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 28.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 29.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 30.\" 31.\" @(#)rmdir.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 32.\" 33.Dd $Mdocdate: October 24 2008 $ 34.Dt RMDIR 2 35.Os 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm rmdir 38.Nd remove a directory file 39.Sh SYNOPSIS 40.Fd #include <unistd.h> 41.Ft int 42.Fn rmdir "const char *path" 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44.Fn rmdir 45removes a directory file 46whose name is given by 47.Fa path . 48The directory must not have any entries other 49than 50.Ql \&. 51and 52.Ql \&.. . 53.Sh RETURN VALUES 54A 0 is returned if the remove succeeds; otherwise a \-1 is 55returned and an error code is stored in the global location 56.Va errno . 57.Sh ERRORS 58The named file is removed unless: 59.Bl -tag -width Er 60.It Bq Er ENOTDIR 61A component of the path is not a directory. 62.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG 63A component of a pathname exceeded 64.Dv {NAME_MAX} 65characters, or an entire path name exceeded 66.Dv {PATH_MAX} 67characters. 68.It Bq Er ENOENT 69The named directory does not exist. 70.It Bq Er ELOOP 71Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. 72.It Bq Er ENOTEMPTY 73The named directory contains files other than 74.Ql \&. 75and 76.Ql \&.. 77in it. 78.It Bq Er EACCES 79Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix. 80.It Bq Er EACCES 81Write permission is denied on the directory containing the link 82to be removed. 83.It Bq Er EPERM 84The directory containing the directory to be removed is marked sticky, 85and neither the containing directory nor the directory to be removed 86are owned by the effective user ID. 87.It Bq Er EBUSY 88The directory to be removed is the mount point 89for a mounted file system or the current directory. 90.It Bq Er EIO 91An I/O error occurred while deleting the directory entry 92or deallocating the inode. 93.It Bq Er EROFS 94The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only file system. 95.It Bq Er EFAULT 96.Fa path 97points outside the process's allocated address space. 98.El 99.Sh SEE ALSO 100.Xr rmdir 1 , 101.Xr mkdir 2 , 102.Xr unlink 2 103.Sh HISTORY 104The 105.Fn rmdir 106function call appeared in 107.Bx 4.2 . 108