RMDIR(2) MachTen Programmer’s Manual RMDIR(2)

NAME
rmdir - remove a directory file

SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>

int
rmdir(const char *path)

DESCRIPTION
Rmdir() removes a directory file whose name is given by path. The direc-
tory must not have any entries other than ‘.’ and ‘..’.

RETURN VALUES
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:

[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.