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-.\" 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 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
-.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)