110 lines
3.5 KiB
Groff
110 lines
3.5 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
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.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" @(#)rmdir.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd June 4, 1993
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.Dt RMDIR 2
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm rmdir
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.Nd remove a directory file
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In unistd.h
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.Ft int
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.Fn rmdir "const char *path"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn rmdir
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system call
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removes a directory file
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whose name is given by
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.Fa path .
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The directory must not have any entries other
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than
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.Ql .\&
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and
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.Ql \&.. .
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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.Rv -std rmdir
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.Sh ERRORS
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The named file is removed unless:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
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A component of the path is not a directory.
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.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
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A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
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or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
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.It Bq Er ENOENT
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The named directory does not exist.
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.It Bq Er ELOOP
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Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
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.It Bq Er ENOTEMPTY
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The named directory contains files other than
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.Ql .\&
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and
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.Ql ..\&
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in it.
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.It Bq Er EACCES
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Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
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.It Bq Er EACCES
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Write permission is denied on the directory containing the link
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to be removed.
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.It Bq Er EPERM
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The directory containing the directory to be removed is marked sticky,
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and neither the containing directory nor the directory to be removed
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are owned by the effective user ID.
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.It Bq Er EBUSY
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The directory to be removed is the mount point
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for a mounted file system.
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.It Bq Er EIO
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An I/O error occurred while deleting the directory entry
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or deallocating the inode.
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.It Bq Er EROFS
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The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only file system.
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.It Bq Er EFAULT
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The
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.Fa path
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argument
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points outside the process's allocated address space.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr mkdir 2 ,
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.Xr unlink 2
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn rmdir
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system call appeared in
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.Bx 4.2 .
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