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+.\" Hey Emacs! This file is -*- nroff -*- source.
+.\"
+.\" This manpage is Copyright (C) 1992 Drew Eckhardt;
+.\"                               1993 Michael Haardt, Ian Jackson.
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+.\" 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 <mtk16@ext.canterbury.ac.nz>
+.\"
+.TH RMDIR 2 2004-06-23 "Linux 2.6.7" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.SH NAME
+rmdir \- delete a directory
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B #include <unistd.h>
+.sp
+.BI "int rmdir(const char *" pathname );
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B 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 appropriately.
+.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
+.IR pathname
+did not allow search permission.
+(See also
+.BR path_resolution (2).
+.TP
+.B EBUSY
+.I pathname
+is the current working directory or root directory of some process.
+.TP
+.B EFAULT
+.IR pathname " points outside your accessible address space."
+.TP
+.B EINVAL
+.I pathname
+has
+.B .
+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
+.BR . " and " .. " ."
+.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
+.IR pathname
+does not support the removal of directories.
+.TP
+.B EROFS
+.I pathname
+refers to a file on a read-only filesystem.
+.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+SVr4, SVID, POSIX, BSD 4.3
+.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)