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460495ca | 30 | .TH RMDIR 2 2015-08-08 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
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31 | .SH NAME |
32 | rmdir \- delete a directory | |
33 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
34 | .B #include <unistd.h> | |
68e4db0a | 35 | .PP |
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36 | .BI "int rmdir(const char *" pathname ); |
37 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
e511ffb6 | 38 | .BR rmdir () |
fea681da | 39 | deletes a directory, which must be empty. |
47297adb | 40 | .SH RETURN VALUE |
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41 | On success, zero is returned. |
42 | On error, \-1 is returned, and | |
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43 | .I errno |
44 | is set appropriately. | |
45 | .SH ERRORS | |
46 | .TP | |
47 | .B EACCES | |
48 | Write access to the directory containing | |
49 | .I pathname | |
50 | was not allowed, or one of the directories in the path prefix of | |
0daa9e92 | 51 | .I pathname |
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52 | did not allow search permission. |
53 | (See also | |
ad7cc990 | 54 | .BR path_resolution (7). |
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55 | .TP |
56 | .B EBUSY | |
57 | .I pathname | |
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58 | is currently in use by the system or some process that prevents its |
59 | removal. | |
329ad271 | 60 | On Linux, this means |
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61 | .I pathname |
62 | is currently used as a mount point | |
63 | or is the root directory of the calling process. | |
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64 | .TP |
65 | .B EFAULT | |
66 | .IR pathname " points outside your accessible address space." | |
67 | .TP | |
68 | .B EINVAL | |
69 | .I pathname | |
70 | has | |
836f07c1 | 71 | .I . |
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72 | as last component. |
73 | .TP | |
74 | .B ELOOP | |
75 | Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving | |
76 | .IR pathname . | |
77 | .TP | |
78 | .B ENAMETOOLONG | |
79 | .IR pathname " was too long." | |
80 | .TP | |
81 | .B ENOENT | |
82 | A directory component in | |
83 | .I pathname | |
84 | does not exist or is a dangling symbolic link. | |
85 | .TP | |
86 | .B ENOMEM | |
87 | Insufficient kernel memory was available. | |
88 | .TP | |
89 | .B ENOTDIR | |
90 | .IR pathname , | |
91 | or a component used as a directory in | |
92 | .IR pathname , | |
93 | is not, in fact, a directory. | |
94 | .TP | |
95 | .B ENOTEMPTY | |
96 | .I pathname | |
97 | contains entries other than | |
ade10f99 | 98 | .IR . " and " .. " ;" |
c13182ef | 99 | or, |
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100 | .I pathname |
101 | has | |
0daa9e92 | 102 | .I .. |
ade10f99 | 103 | as its final component. |
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104 | POSIX.1 also allows |
105 | .\" POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008 | |
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106 | .B EEXIST |
107 | for this condition. | |
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108 | .TP |
109 | .B EPERM | |
110 | The directory containing | |
111 | .I pathname | |
112 | has the sticky bit | |
113 | .RB ( S_ISVTX ) | |
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114 | set and the process's effective user ID is neither the user ID |
115 | of the file to be deleted nor that of the directory containing it, | |
635c9a54 | 116 | and the process is not privileged (Linux: does not have the |
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117 | .B CAP_FOWNER |
118 | capability). | |
119 | .TP | |
120 | .B EPERM | |
9ee4a2b6 | 121 | The filesystem containing |
0daa9e92 | 122 | .I pathname |
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123 | does not support the removal of directories. |
124 | .TP | |
125 | .B EROFS | |
126 | .I pathname | |
9ee4a2b6 | 127 | refers to a directory on a read-only filesystem. |
47297adb | 128 | .SH CONFORMING TO |
1f9304ca | 129 | POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, SVr4, 4.3BSD. |
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130 | .SH BUGS |
131 | Infelicities in the protocol underlying NFS can cause the unexpected | |
132 | disappearance of directories which are still being used. | |
47297adb | 133 | .SH SEE ALSO |
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134 | .BR rm (1), |
135 | .BR rmdir (1), | |
136 | .BR chdir (2), | |
137 | .BR chmod (2), | |
138 | .BR mkdir (2), | |
139 | .BR rename (2), | |
635c9a54 | 140 | .BR unlink (2), |
f5958902 | 141 | .BR unlinkat (2) |