1.\" $OpenBSD: rmdir.2,v 1.7 1999/06/29 14:10:16 aaron 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. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 16.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 17.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 18.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 19.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 20.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 21.\" without specific prior written permission. 22.\" 23.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 24.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 25.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 26.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 27.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 28.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 29.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 30.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 31.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 32.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 33.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 34.\" 35.\" @(#)rmdir.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 36.\" 37.Dd June 4, 1993 38.Dt RMDIR 2 39.Os 40.Sh NAME 41.Nm rmdir 42.Nd remove a directory file 43.Sh SYNOPSIS 44.Fd #include <unistd.h> 45.Ft int 46.Fn rmdir "const char *path" 47.Sh DESCRIPTION 48.Fn rmdir 49removes a directory file 50whose name is given by 51.Fa path . 52The directory must not have any entries other 53than 54.Ql \&. 55and 56.Ql \&.. . 57.Sh RETURN VALUES 58A 0 is returned if the remove succeeds; otherwise a \-1 is 59returned and an error code is stored in the global location 60.Va errno . 61.Sh ERRORS 62The named file is removed unless: 63.Bl -tag -width Er 64.It Bq Er ENOTDIR 65A component of the path is not a directory. 66.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG 67A component of a pathname exceeded 68.Dv {NAME_MAX} 69characters, or an entire path name exceeded 70.Dv {PATH_MAX} 71characters. 72.It Bq Er ENOENT 73The named directory does not exist. 74.It Bq Er ELOOP 75Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. 76.It Bq Er ENOTEMPTY 77The named directory contains files other than 78.Ql \&. 79and 80.Ql \&.. 81in it. 82.It Bq Er EACCES 83Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix. 84.It Bq Er EACCES 85Write permission is denied on the directory containing the link 86to be removed. 87.It Bq Er EPERM 88The directory containing the directory to be removed is marked sticky, 89and neither the containing directory nor the directory to be removed 90are owned by the effective user ID. 91.It Bq Er EBUSY 92The directory to be removed is the mount point 93for a mounted file system or the current directory. 94.It Bq Er EIO 95An I/O error occurred while deleting the directory entry 96or deallocating the inode. 97.It Bq Er EROFS 98The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only file system. 99.It Bq Er EFAULT 100.Fa path 101points outside the process's allocated address space. 102.El 103.Sh SEE ALSO 104.Xr mkdir 2 , 105.Xr unlink 2 106.Sh HISTORY 107The 108.Fn rmdir 109function call appeared in 110.Bx 4.2 . 111