1.\" $NetBSD: rmdir.2,v 1.20 2010/05/31 12:16:20 njoly Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 15.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 16.\" without specific prior written permission. 17.\" 18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 19.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 20.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 21.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 22.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 23.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 24.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 25.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 26.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 27.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 28.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.\" @(#)rmdir.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 31.\" 32.Dd June 4, 1993 33.Dt RMDIR 2 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm rmdir 37.Nd remove a directory file 38.Sh LIBRARY 39.Lb libc 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.In unistd.h 42.Ft int 43.Fn rmdir "const char *path" 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45.Fn rmdir 46removes a directory file 47whose name is given by 48.Fa path . 49The directory must not have any entries other 50than 51.Ql \&. 52and 53.Ql \&.. . 54.Sh RETURN VALUES 55A 0 is returned if the remove succeeds; otherwise a \-1 is 56returned and an error code is stored in the global location 57.Va errno . 58.Sh ERRORS 59The named file is removed unless: 60.Bl -tag -width Er 61.It Bq Er ENOTDIR 62A component of the path is not a directory. 63.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG 64A component of a pathname exceeded 65.Brq Dv NAME_MAX 66characters, or an entire path name exceeded 67.Brq Dv PATH_MAX 68characters. 69.It Bq Er ENOENT 70The named directory does not exist. 71.It Bq Er ELOOP 72Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. 73.It Bq Er ENOTEMPTY 74The named directory contains files other than 75.Ql \&. 76and 77.Ql \&.. 78in it. 79.It Bq Er EACCES 80Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix, or 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. 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 mkdir 2 , 101.Xr unlink 2 102.Sh STANDARDS 103The 104.Fn rmdir 105function conforms to 106.St -p1003.1-90 . 107.Sh HISTORY 108The 109.Fn rmdir 110function call appeared in 111.Bx 4.2 . 112