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removes
a directory file whose name is given by The directory must not have any
entries other than and
A 0 is returned if the remove succeeds;
otherwise a -1 is returned and an error code is stored in the global location
The named file is removed unless: A component of the path is not
a directory. A component of a pathname exceeded characters, or an entire
path name exceeded characters. The named directory does not exist. Too
many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. The named
directory contains files other than and in it. Search permission is denied
for a component of the path prefix. Write permission is denied on the directory
containing the link to be removed. The directory containing the directory
to be removed is marked sticky, and neither the containing directory nor
the directory to be removed are owned by the effective user ID. The directory
to be removed is the mount point for a mounted file system. An I/O error
occurred while deleting the directory entry or deallocating the inode.
The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only file system. points
outside the process’s allocated address space.
The function
call appeared in
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