.\" Hey Emacs! This file is -*- nroff -*- source. .\" .\" This manpage is Copyright (C) 1992 Drew Eckhardt; .\" 1993 Michael Haardt, Ian Jackson. .\" .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this .\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are .\" preserved on all copies. .\" .\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this .\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the .\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a .\" permission notice identical to this one .\" .\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this .\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no .\" responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from .\" the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may not .\" have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual, .\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working .\" professionally. .\" .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. .\" .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 00:39:47 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) .\" .TH RMDIR 2 "24 July 1993" "Linux 0.99.7" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME rmdir \- delete a directory .SH SYNOPSIS .B #include .sp .BI "int rmdir(const char *" pathname ); .SH DESCRIPTION .B rmdir deletes a directory, which must be empty. .SH "RETURN VALUE" On success, zero is returned. On error, \-1 is returned, and .I errno is set appropriately. .SH ERRORS .TP 0.8i .B EPERM The filesystem containing .IR pathname does not support the removal of directories. .TP .B EFAULT .IR pathname " points outside your accessible address space." .TP .B EACCES Write access to the directory containing .I pathname was not allowed for the process's effective uid, or one of the directories in .IR pathname did not allow search (execute) permission. .TP .B EPERM The directory containing .I pathname has the sticky-bit .RB ( S_ISVTX ) set and the process's effective uid is neither the uid of the file to be deleted nor that of the directory containing it. .TP .B ENAMETOOLONG .IR pathname " was too long." .TP .B ENOENT A directory component in .I pathname does not exist or is a dangling symbolic link. .TP .B ENOTDIR .IR pathname , or a component used as a directory in .IR pathname , is not, in fact, a directory. .TP .B ENOTEMPTY .I pathname contains entries other than .BR . " and " .. " ." .TP .B EBUSY .I pathname is the current working directory or root directory of some process. .TP .B ENOMEM Insufficient kernel memory was available. .TP .B EROFS .I pathname refers to a file on a read-only filesystem. .TP .B ELOOP .I pathname contains a reference to a circular symbolic link, ie a symbolic link containing a reference to itself. .SH "CONFORMING TO" SVID, AT&T, POSIX, BSD 4.3 .SH BUGS Infelicities in the protocol underlying NFS can cause the unexpected disappearance of directories which are still being used. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR rename "(2), " mkdir "(2), " chdir "(2), " unlink (2), .BR rmdir "(1), " rm (1)