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rmdir(2) System Calls Manual rmdir(2)
rmdir - delete a directory
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
#include <unistd.h>
int rmdir(const char *pathname);
rmdir() deletes a directory, which must be empty.
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and
errno is set to indicate the error.
EACCES 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).)
EBUSY 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.
EFAULT pathname points outside your accessible address space.
EINVAL pathname has . as last component.
ELOOP Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving
pathname.
ENAMETOOLONG
pathname was too long.
ENOENT A directory component in pathname does not exist or is a
dangling symbolic link.
ENOMEM Insufficient kernel memory was available.
ENOTDIR
pathname, or a component used as a directory in pathname,
is not, in fact, a directory.
ENOTEMPTY
pathname contains entries other than . and .. ; or,
pathname has .. as its final component. POSIX.1 also
allows EEXIST for this condition.
EPERM 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).
EPERM The filesystem containing pathname does not support the
removal of directories.
EROFS pathname refers to a directory on a read-only filesystem.
POSIX.1-2008.
POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
Infelicities in the protocol underlying NFS can cause the
unexpected disappearance of directories which are still being
used.
rm(1), rmdir(1), chdir(2), chmod(2), mkdir(2), rename(2),
unlink(2), unlinkat(2)
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Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 rmdir(2)
Pages that refer to this page: rmdir(1), fanotify_mark(2), fcntl(2), mkdir(2), syscalls(2), unlink(2), remove(3), cpuset(7), mount_namespaces(7), signal-safety(7), symlink(7), mount(8)
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