78 lines
1.9 KiB
Groff
78 lines
1.9 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
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.\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement
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.\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
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.\"
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.\" @(#)rmdir.2 6.3 (Berkeley) 8/26/85
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.\"
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.TH RMDIR 2 "August 26, 1985"
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.UC 5
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.SH NAME
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rmdir \- remove a directory file
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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.ft B
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#include <unistd.h>
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int rmdir(const char *\fIpath\fP)
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.fi
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.ft R
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B Rmdir
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removes a directory file
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whose name is given by
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.I path.
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The directory must not have any entries other
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than \*(lq.\*(rq and \*(lq..\*(rq.
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.SH "RETURN VALUE
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A 0 is returned if the remove succeeds; otherwise a \-1 is
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returned and an error code is stored in the global location \fIerrno\fP\|.
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.SH ERRORS
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The named file is removed unless one or more of the
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following are true:
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.TP 15
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[ENOTDIR]
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A component of the path is not a directory.
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.TP 15
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[ENAMETOOLONG]
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The path name exceeds PATH_MAX characters.
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.TP 15
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[ENOENT]
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The named directory does not exist.
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.TP 15
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[ELOOP]
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Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
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(Minix-vmd)
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.TP 15
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[ENOTEMPTY]
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The named directory contains files other than ``.'' and ``..'' in it.
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.TP 15
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[EACCES]
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Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
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.TP 15
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[EACCES]
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Write permission is denied on the directory containing the link
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to be removed.
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.TP 15
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[EPERM]
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The directory containing the directory to be removed is marked sticky,
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and neither the containing directory nor the directory to be removed
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are owned by the effective user ID.
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.TP 15
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[EBUSY]
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The directory to be removed is the mount point
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for a mounted file system.
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.TP 15
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[EIO]
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An I/O error occurred while deleting the directory entry
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or deallocating the inode.
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.TP 15
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[EROFS]
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The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only file system.
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.TP 15
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[EFAULT]
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.I Path
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points outside the process's allocated address space.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR mkdir (2),
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.BR unlink (2).
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