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.\" Modified 1993-07-24 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
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.\" Modified 1997-01-31 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
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.\" Modified 2004-06-23 by Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
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.TH RMDIR 2 2004-06-23 "Linux 2.6.7" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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rmdir \- delete a directory
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B #include <unistd.h>
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.sp
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.BI "int rmdir(const char *" pathname );
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.BR rmdir ()
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deletes a directory, which must be empty.
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.SH "RETURN VALUE"
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On success, zero is returned. On error, \-1 is returned, and
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.I errno
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is set appropriately.
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.SH ERRORS
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.TP
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.B EACCES
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Write access to the directory containing
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.I pathname
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was not allowed, or one of the directories in the path prefix of
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.IR pathname
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did not allow search permission.
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(See also
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.BR path_resolution (2).
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.TP
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.B EBUSY
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.I pathname
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is the current working directory or root directory of some process.
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.TP
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.B EFAULT
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.IR pathname " points outside your accessible address space."
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.TP
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.B EINVAL
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.I pathname
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has
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.I .
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as last component.
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.TP
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.B ELOOP
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Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving
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.IR pathname .
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.TP
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.B ENAMETOOLONG
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.IR pathname " was too long."
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.TP
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.B ENOENT
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A directory component in
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.I pathname
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does not exist or is a dangling symbolic link.
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.TP
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.B ENOMEM
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Insufficient kernel memory was available.
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.TP
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.B ENOTDIR
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.IR pathname ,
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or a component used as a directory in
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.IR pathname ,
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is not, in fact, a directory.
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.TP
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.B ENOTEMPTY
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.I pathname
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contains entries other than
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.IR . " and " .. " ."
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.TP
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.B EPERM
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The directory containing
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.I pathname
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has the sticky bit
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.RB ( S_ISVTX )
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set and the process's effective user ID is neither the user ID of the file to
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be deleted nor that of the directory containing it, and the process is not
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privileged (Linux: does not have the
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.B CAP_FOWNER
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capability).
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.TP
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.B EPERM
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The filesystem containing
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.IR pathname
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does not support the removal of directories.
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.TP
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.B EROFS
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.I pathname
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refers to a file on a read-only filesystem.
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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SVr4, SVID, POSIX, 4.3BSD
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.SH BUGS
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Infelicities in the protocol underlying NFS can cause the unexpected
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disappearance of directories which are still being used.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR rm (1),
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.BR rmdir (1),
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.BR chdir (2),
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.BR chmod (2),
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.BR mkdir (2),
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.BR rename (2),
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.BR unlink (2)
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.BR unlinkat (2)
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