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RMDIR(2) FreeBSD System Calls Manual RMDIR(2) NAME rmdir - remove a directory file LIBRARY Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS #include <unistd.h> int rmdir(const char *path); DESCRIPTION The rmdir() system call removes a directory file whose name is given by path. The directory must not have any entries other than `.' and `..'. RETURN VALUES The rmdir() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error. ERRORS The named file is removed unless: [ENOTDIR] A component of the path is not a directory. [ENAMETOOLONG] A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters. [ENOENT] The named directory does not exist. [ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. [ENOTEMPTY] The named directory contains files other than `.' and `..' in it. [EACCES] Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix. [EACCES] Write permission is denied on the directory containing the link to be removed. [EPERM] The directory to be removed has its immutable, undeletable or append-only flag set, see the chflags(2) manual page for more information. [EPERM] The parent directory of the directory to be removed has its immutable or append-only flag set. [EPERM] 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. [EINVAL] The last component of the path is `.' or `..'. file system. [EROFS] The directory entry to be removed resides on a read- only file system. [EFAULT] The path argument points outside the process's allocated address space. SEE ALSO mkdir(2), unlink(2) HISTORY The rmdir() system call appeared in 4.2BSD. FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11 March 30, 2020 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11