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NAME
     rmdir - remove a directory file

USAGE
     rmdir(path)
     char *path;


DESCRIPTION
     Rmdir removes the directory file named by path. The direc-
     tory must be empty (a directory that only contains the
     entries "." and ".." is considered to be empty).

RETURN VALUE
     A successful call returns zero.  A failed call returns -1
     and sets errno as indicated below.

ERRORS
     The named file is removed unless one or more of the follow-
     ing are true:

     [ENOTEMPTY]    The named directory is not empty.

     [EPERM]        The pathname contains a character with the
                    high-order bit set.

     [ENOENT]       The pathname is too long.

     [ENOTDIR]      A component of the path prefix is not a
                    directory.

     [ENOENT]       The named file does not exist.

     [EACCES]       A component of the path prefix denies search
                    permission.

     [EACCES]       Write permission is denied on the directory
                    containing the link to be removed.

     [EBUSY]        The directory to be removed is the mount
                    point for a mounted file system.

     [EROFS]        The directory entry to be removed resides on
                    a read-only file system.

     [EFAULT]       Path points outside the process's allocated
                    address space.

     [ELOOP]        Too many symbolic links were encountered in
                    translating the pathname.



Printed 12/4/86                                           RMDIR-1

RMDIR(2)                 DOMAIN/IX SYS5                  RMDIR(2)



RELATED INFORMATION
     mkdir(2), unlink(2)



















































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