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diff --git a/upstream/archlinux/man3p/rmdir.3p b/upstream/archlinux/man3p/rmdir.3p new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3fdfef75 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/archlinux/man3p/rmdir.3p @@ -0,0 +1,269 @@ +'\" et +.TH RMDIR "3P" 2017 "IEEE/The Open Group" "POSIX Programmer's Manual" +.\" +.SH PROLOG +This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. +The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult +the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), +or the interface may not be implemented on Linux. +.\" +.SH NAME +rmdir +\(em remove a directory +.SH SYNOPSIS +.LP +.nf +#include <unistd.h> +.P +int rmdir(const char *\fIpath\fP); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +\fIrmdir\fR() +function shall remove a directory whose name is given by +.IR path . +The directory shall be removed only if it is an empty directory. +.P +If the directory is the root directory or the current working directory +of any process, it is unspecified whether the function succeeds, or +whether it shall fail and set +.IR errno +to +.BR [EBUSY] . +.P +If +.IR path +names a symbolic link, then +\fIrmdir\fR() +shall fail and set +.IR errno +to +.BR [ENOTDIR] . +.P +If the +.IR path +argument refers to a path whose final component is either dot or +dot-dot, +\fIrmdir\fR() +shall fail. +.P +If the directory's link count becomes 0 and no process has the +directory open, the space occupied by the directory shall be freed and +the directory shall no longer be accessible. If one or more processes +have the directory open when the last link is removed, the dot and +dot-dot entries, if present, shall be removed before +\fIrmdir\fR() +returns and no new entries may be created in the directory, but the +directory shall not be removed until all references to the directory +are closed. +.P +If the directory is not an empty directory, +\fIrmdir\fR() +shall fail and set +.IR errno +to +.BR [EEXIST] +or +.BR [ENOTEMPTY] . +.P +Upon successful completion, +\fIrmdir\fR() +shall mark for update the last data modification and last file status +change timestamps of the parent directory. +.SH "RETURN VALUE" +Upon successful completion, the function +\fIrmdir\fR() +shall return 0. Otherwise, \-1 shall be returned, and +.IR errno +set to indicate the error. If \-1 is returned, the named +directory shall not be changed. +.SH ERRORS +The +\fIrmdir\fR() +function shall fail if: +.TP +.BR EACCES +Search permission is denied on a component of the path prefix, or write +permission is denied on the parent directory of the directory to be +removed. +.TP +.BR EBUSY +The directory to be removed is currently in use by the system or +some process and the implementation considers this to be an error. +.IP "[EEXIST]\ or\ [ENOTEMPTY]" 12 +.br +The +.IR path +argument names a directory that is not an empty directory, or there are +hard links to the directory other than dot or a single entry in +dot-dot. +.TP +.BR EINVAL +The +.IR path +argument contains a last component that is dot. +.TP +.BR EIO +A physical I/O error has occurred. +.TP +.BR ELOOP +A loop exists in symbolic links encountered during resolution of the +.IR path +argument. +.TP +.BR ENAMETOOLONG +.br +The length of a component of a pathname is longer than +{NAME_MAX}. +.TP +.BR ENOENT +A component of +.IR path +does not name an existing file, or the +.IR path +argument names a nonexistent directory or points to an empty string. +.TP +.BR ENOTDIR +A component of +.IR path +names an existing file that is neither a directory nor a symbolic link +to a directory. +.IP "[EPERM]\ or\ [EACCES]" 12 +.br +The S_ISVTX flag is set on the directory containing the file referred +to by the +.IR path +argument and the process does not satisfy the criteria specified in the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1\(hy2017, +.IR "Section 4.3" ", " "Directory Protection". +.TP +.BR EROFS +The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only file system. +.P +The +\fIrmdir\fR() +function may fail if: +.TP +.BR ELOOP +More than +{SYMLOOP_MAX} +symbolic links were encountered during resolution of the +.IR path +argument. +.TP +.BR ENAMETOOLONG +.br +The length of a pathname exceeds +{PATH_MAX}, +or pathname resolution of a symbolic link produced an intermediate +result with a length that exceeds +{PATH_MAX}. +.LP +.IR "The following sections are informative." +.SH EXAMPLES +.SS "Removing a Directory" +.P +The following example shows how to remove a directory named +.BR /home/cnd/mod1 . +.sp +.RS 4 +.nf + +#include <unistd.h> +.P +int status; +\&... +status = rmdir("/home/cnd/mod1"); +.fi +.P +.RE +.SH "APPLICATION USAGE" +None. +.SH RATIONALE +The +\fIrmdir\fR() +and +\fIrename\fR() +functions originated in 4.2 BSD, and they used +.BR [ENOTEMPTY] +for the condition when the directory to be removed does not exist or +.IR new +already exists. When the 1984 /usr/group standard was published, it contained +.BR [EEXIST] +instead. When these functions were adopted into System V, the +1984 /usr/group standard was used as a reference. Therefore, several existing applications +and implementations support/use both forms, and no agreement could be +reached on either value. All implementations are required to supply +both +.BR [EEXIST] +and +.BR [ENOTEMPTY] +in +.IR <errno.h> +with distinct values, so that applications can use both values in +C-language +.BR case +statements. +.P +The meaning of deleting +.IR pathname \c +.BR /dot +is unclear, because the name of the file (directory) in the parent +directory to be removed is not clear, particularly in the presence of +multiple links to a directory. +.P +The POSIX.1\(hy1990 standard was silent with regard to the behavior of +\fIrmdir\fR() +when there are multiple hard links to the directory being removed. The +requirement to set +.IR errno +to +.BR [EEXIST] +or +.BR [ENOTEMPTY] +clarifies the behavior in this case. +.P +If the current working directory of the process is being removed, that +should be an allowed error. +.P +Virtually all existing implementations detect +.BR [ENOTEMPTY] +or the case of dot-dot. The text in +.IR "Section 2.3" ", " "Error Numbers" +about returning any one of the possible errors permits that behavior to +continue. The +.BR [ELOOP] +error may be returned if more than +{SYMLOOP_MAX} +symbolic links are encountered during resolution of the +.IR path +argument. +.SH "FUTURE DIRECTIONS" +None. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.IR "Section 2.3" ", " "Error Numbers", +.IR "\fImkdir\fR\^(\|)", +.IR "\fIremove\fR\^(\|)", +.IR "\fIrename\fR\^(\|)", +.IR "\fIunlink\fR\^(\|)" +.P +The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1\(hy2017, +.IR "Section 4.3" ", " "Directory Protection", +.IR "\fB<unistd.h>\fP" +.\" +.SH COPYRIGHT +Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form +from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology +-- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base +Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, +Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of +Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. +In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and +The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard +is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at +http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html . +.PP +Any typographical or formatting errors that appear +in this page are most likely +to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to +man page format. To report such errors, see +https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html . |