rmdir — delete a directory
#include <unistd.h>
int
rmdir( |
const char *pathname); |
On success, zero is returned. On error, −1 is
returned, and errno is set
appropriately.
Write access to the directory containing pathname was not allowed,
or one of the directories in the path prefix of
pathname did
not allow search permission. (See also path_resolution(7).
pathname is
currently in use by the system or some process that
prevents its removal. On Linux this means pathname is currently
used as a mount point or is the root directory of the
calling process.
pathname
points outside your accessible address space.
pathname has
. as last component.
Too many symbolic links were encountered in
resolving pathname.
pathname was
too long.
A directory component in pathname does not exist
or is a dangling symbolic link.
Insufficient kernel memory was available.
pathname, or
a component used as a directory in pathname, is not, in
fact, a directory.
pathname
contains entries other than . and .. ; or, pathname has .. as its final component.
POSIX.1-2001 also allows EEXIST for this condition.
The directory containing pathname has the sticky
bit (S_ISVTX) set and the
process's effective user ID is neither the user ID of
the file to be deleted nor that of the directory
containing it, and the process is not privileged
(Linux: does not have the CAP_FOWNER capability).
The file system containing pathname does not support
the removal of directories.
pathname
refers to a directory on a read-only file system.
Infelicities in the protocol underlying NFS can cause the unexpected disappearance of directories which are still being used.
This page is part of release 3.33 of the Linux man-pages project. A
description of the project, and information about reporting
bugs, can be found at http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/.
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