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    RMDIR(2)            Linux Programmer's Manual            RMDIR(2)

    NAME
           rmdir - delete a directory

    SYNOPSIS
           #include <unistd.h>

           int rmdir(const char *pathname);

    DESCRIPTION
           rmdir deletes a directory, which must be empty.

    RETURN VALUE
           On  success,  zero is returned.  On error, -1 is returned,
           and errno is set appropriately.

    ERRORS
           EPERM   The filesystem containing pathname does  not  sup-
                   port the removal of directories.

           EFAULT  pathname  points  outside  your accessible address
                   space.

           EACCES  Write access to the directory containing  pathname
                   was  not  allowed for the process's effective uid,
                   or one of the  directories  in  pathname  did  not
                   allow search (execute) permission.

           EPERM   The  directory containing pathname has the sticky-
                   bit (S_ISVTX) set and the process's effective  uid
                   is  neither  the uid of the file to be deleted nor
                   that of the directory containing it.

           ENAMETOOLONG
                   pathname was too long.

           ENOENT  A directory component in pathname does  not  exist
                   or is a dangling symbolic link.

           ENOTDIR pathname,  or  a  component used as a directory in
                   pathname, is not, in fact, a directory.

           ENOTEMPTY
                   pathname contains entries other than . and .. .

           EBUSY   pathname is the current working directory or  root
                   directory of some process.

           ENOMEM  Insufficient kernel memory was available.

           EROFS   pathname  refers to a file on a read-only filesys-
                   tem.

           ELOOP   pathname contains a reference to a  circular  sym-
                   bolic  link,  ie  a  symbolic  link  containing  a

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                   reference to itself.

    CONFORMING TO
           SVID, AT&T, POSIX, BSD 4.3

    BUGS
           Infelicities in the protocol underlying NFS can cause  the
           unexpected  disappearance  of  directories which are still
           being used.

### SEE ALSO

rename, mkdir, chdir, unlink,

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