NAME
rmdir - remove a directory file

SYNOPSIS
rmdir(path)
const char *path;

DESCRIPTION
Rmdir removes a directory file whose name is given by path. The
directory must not have any entries other than "." and "..".

RETURN VALUE
A 0 is returned if the remove succeeds; otherwise a -1 is returned
and an error code is stored in the global location errno.

ERRORS
The named file is removed unless one or more of the following are
true:

[ENOTDIR] A component of the path is not a directory.

[EINVAL] The pathname contains a character with the high-
order bit set.

[ENAMETOOLONG] A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.

[ENOENT] The named directory does not exist.

[ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in
translating the pathname.

[ENOTEMPTY] The named directory contains files other than "."
and ".." in it.

[EACCES] Search permission is denied for a component of the
path prefix.

[EACCES] Write permission is denied on the directory
containing the link to be removed.

[EPERM] The directory containing the directory to be removed
is marked sticky, and neither the containing
directory nor the directory to be removed are owned
by the effective user ID.

[EBUSY] The directory to be removed is the mount point for a
mounted file system.

[EIO] An I/O error occurred while deleting the directory
entry or deallocating the inode.

[EROFS] The directory entry to be removed resides on a
read-only file system.

[EFAULT] Path points outside the process’s allocated address
space.

SEE ALSO
mkdir(2), unlink(2)