RMDIR(2)

NAME
rmdir - delete a directory

SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>

int rmdir(const char *pathname);

DESCRIPTION
rmdir deletes a directory, which must be empty.

RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.

ERRORS

EPERM
    The filesystem containing pathname does not support the removal of directories.

EFAULT
    pathname points outside your accessible address space.

EACCES
    Write access to the directory containing pathname was not allowed for the process's effective uid, or one of the directories in pathname did not allow search (execute) permission.

EPERM
    The directory containing pathname has the sticky-bit (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.

ENAMETOOLONG
    pathname was too long.

ENOENT
    A directory component in pathname does not exist or is a dangling symbolic link.

ENOTDIR
    pathname, or a component used as a directory in pathname, is not, in fact, a directory.

ENOTEMPTY
    pathname contains entries other than . and .. .

EBUSY
    pathname is the current working directory or root directory of some process.

ENOMEM
    Insufficient kernel memory was available.

EROFS
    pathname refers to a file on a read-only filesystem.

ELOOP
    pathname contains a reference to a circular symbolic link, ie a symbolic link containing a reference to itself.

CONFORMING TO
SVID, AT&T, POSIX, BSD 4.3

BUGS
Infelicities in the protocol underlying NFS can cause the unexpected disappearance of directories which are still being used.

SEE ALSO
rename(2), mkdir(2), chdir(2), unlink(2), rmdir(1), rm(1)