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NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

removes a directory file whose name is given by The directory must not have any entries other than and

RETURN VALUES

A 0 is returned if the remove succeeds; otherwise a -1 is returned and an error code is stored in the global location

ERRORS

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.

SEE ALSO

HISTORY

The function call appeared in


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