.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
.\" %sccs.include.redist.man%
.\" @(#)rmdir.2 6.6 (Berkeley) %G%
.Nd remove a directory file
.Fn rmdir "const char *path"
The directory must not have any entries other
A 0 is returned if the remove succeeds; otherwise a -1 is
returned and an error code is stored in the global location
The named file is removed unless:
.Bl -tag -width [ENAMETOOLONG]
A component of the path is not a directory.
The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set.
A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
The named directory does not exist.
Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
The named directory contains files other than
Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
Write permission is denied on the directory containing the link
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.
The directory to be removed is the mount point
for a mounted file system.
An I/O error occurred while deleting the directory entry
or deallocating the inode.
The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only file system.
points outside the process's allocated address space.
function call appeared in