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diff --git a/man2/rmdir.2 b/man2/rmdir.2 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5bd7370 --- /dev/null +++ b/man2/rmdir.2 @@ -0,0 +1,128 @@ +.\" This manpage is Copyright (C) 1992 Drew Eckhardt; +.\" and Copyright (C) 1993 Michael Haardt, Ian Jackson. +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.\" Modified 1993-07-24 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu> +.\" Modified 1997-01-31 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> +.\" Modified 2004-06-23 by Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +.\" +.TH rmdir 2 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +rmdir \- delete a directory +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <unistd.h> +.PP +.BI "int rmdir(const char *" pathname ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +.BR rmdir () +deletes a directory, which must be empty. +.SH RETURN VALUE +On success, zero is returned. +On error, \-1 is returned, and +.I errno +is set to indicate the error. +.SH ERRORS +.TP +.B EACCES +Write access to the directory containing +.I pathname +was not allowed, or one of the directories in the path prefix of +.I pathname +did not allow search permission. +(See also +.BR path_resolution (7).) +.TP +.B EBUSY +.I pathname +is currently in use by the system or some process that prevents its +removal. +On Linux, this means +.I pathname +is currently used as a mount point +or is the root directory of the calling process. +.TP +.B EFAULT +.IR pathname " points outside your accessible address space." +.TP +.B EINVAL +.I pathname +has +.I . +as last component. +.TP +.B ELOOP +Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving +.IR pathname . +.TP +.B ENAMETOOLONG +.IR pathname " was too long." +.TP +.B ENOENT +A directory component in +.I pathname +does not exist or is a dangling symbolic link. +.TP +.B ENOMEM +Insufficient kernel memory was available. +.TP +.B ENOTDIR +.IR pathname , +or a component used as a directory in +.IR pathname , +is not, in fact, a directory. +.TP +.B ENOTEMPTY +.I pathname +contains entries other than +.IR . " and " .. " ;" +or, +.I pathname +has +.I .. +as its final component. +POSIX.1 also allows +.\" POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008 +.B EEXIST +for this condition. +.TP +.B EPERM +The directory containing +.I pathname +has the sticky bit +.RB ( 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 +.B CAP_FOWNER +capability). +.TP +.B EPERM +The filesystem containing +.I pathname +does not support the removal of directories. +.TP +.B EROFS +.I pathname +refers to a directory on a read-only filesystem. +.SH STANDARDS +POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD. +.SH BUGS +Infelicities in the protocol underlying NFS can cause the unexpected +disappearance of directories which are still being used. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR rm (1), +.BR rmdir (1), +.BR chdir (2), +.BR chmod (2), +.BR mkdir (2), +.BR rename (2), +.BR unlink (2), +.BR unlinkat (2) |