RTEMS 4.5.0 On-Line Library

Files and Directories Manager rmdir - Delete a directory

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#include <unistd.h>

int rmdir(
  const char *pathname
);

EPERM: The filesystem containing pathname does not support the removal of directories.
EFAULT: pathname points ouside your accessible address space.
EACCES: Write access to the directory containing pathname was not allowed for the process's effective uid, or one of the directories in pathname did not allow search (execute) permission.
EPERM: The directory containing pathname has the stickybit (S_ISVTX) set and the process's effective uid is neither the uid of the file to be delected nor that of the director containing it.
ENAMETOOLONG: pathname was too long.
ENOENT: A dirctory component in pathname does not exist or is a dangling symbolic link.
ENOTDIR: pathname, or a component used as a directory in pathname, is not, in fact, a directory.
ENOTEMPTY: pathname contains entries other than . and .. .
EBUSY: pathname is the current working directory or root directory of some process
EBUSY: pathname is the current directory or root directory of some process.
ENOMEM: Insufficient kernel memory was available
EROGS: pathname refers to a file on a read-only filesystem.
ELOOP: pathname contains a reference to a circular symbolic link

rmdir deletes a directory, which must be empty

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