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Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point. Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu> Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
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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 December 9, 2006
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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 to be removed has its immutable, undeletable or append-only flag
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set, see the
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.Xr chflags 2
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manual page for more information.
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.It Bq Er EPERM
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The parent directory of the directory to be removed has its immutable or
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append-only flag set.
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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 EINVAL
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The last component of the path is
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.Ql .\&
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or
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.Ql .. .
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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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