1.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)rmdir.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 06/04/93 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt RMDIR 2 10.Os BSD 4.2 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm rmdir 13.Nd remove a directory file 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Fd #include <unistd.h> 16.Ft int 17.Fn rmdir "const char *path" 18.Sh DESCRIPTION 19.Fn Rmdir 20removes a directory file 21whose name is given by 22.Fa path . 23The directory must not have any entries other 24than 25.Ql \&. 26and 27.Ql \&.. . 28.Sh RETURN VALUES 29A 0 is returned if the remove succeeds; otherwise a -1 is 30returned and an error code is stored in the global location 31.Va errno . 32.Sh ERRORS 33The named file is removed unless: 34.Bl -tag -width [ENAMETOOLONG] 35.It Bq Er ENOTDIR 36A component of the path is not a directory. 37.It Bq Er EINVAL 38The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set. 39.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG 40A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, 41or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters. 42.It Bq Er ENOENT 43The named directory does not exist. 44.It Bq Er ELOOP 45Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. 46.It Bq Er ENOTEMPTY 47The named directory contains files other than 48.Ql \&. 49and 50.Ql \&.. 51in it. 52.It Bq Er EACCES 53Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix. 54.It Bq Er EACCES 55Write permission is denied on the directory containing the link 56to be removed. 57.It Bq Er EPERM 58The directory containing the directory to be removed is marked sticky, 59and neither the containing directory nor the directory to be removed 60are owned by the effective user ID. 61.It Bq Er EBUSY 62The directory to be removed is the mount point 63for a mounted file system. 64.It Bq Er EIO 65An I/O error occurred while deleting the directory entry 66or deallocating the inode. 67.It Bq Er EROFS 68The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only file system. 69.It Bq Er EFAULT 70.Fa Path 71points outside the process's allocated address space. 72.El 73.Sh SEE ALSO 74.Xr mkdir 2 , 75.Xr unlink 2 76.Sh HISTORY 77The 78.Nm 79function call appeared in 80.Bx 4.2 . 81