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- RMDIR(2) Minix Programmer's Manual RMDIR(2)
- NAME
- rmdir - remove a directory file
- SYNOPSIS
- #include <unistd.h>
- int rmdir(const char *path)
- DESCRIPTION
- Rmdir removes a directory file whose name is given by path. The directory
- must not have any entries other than "." and "..".
- RETURN VALUE
- A 0 is returned if the remove succeeds; otherwise a -1 is returned and an
- error code is stored in the global location errno.
- ERRORS
- The named file is removed unless one or more of the following are true:
- [ENOTDIR] A component of the path is not a directory.
- [ENAMETOOLONG] The path name exceeds PATH_MAX characters.
- [ENOENT] The named directory does not exist.
- [ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating
- the pathname. (Minix-vmd)
- [ENOTEMPTY] The named directory contains files other than ``.'' and
- ``..'' in it.
- [EACCES] Search permission is denied for a component of the path
- prefix.
- [EACCES] Write permission is denied on the directory containing the
- link to be removed.
- [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.
- [EBUSY] The directory to be removed is the mount point for a
- mounted file system.
- [EIO] An I/O error occurred while deleting the directory entry
- or deallocating the inode.
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- [EROFS] The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only
- file system.
- [EFAULT] Path points outside the process's allocated address space.
- SEE ALSO
- mkdir(2), unlink(2).
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