See Also

Syscall.mkdir

Syscall.unlink

Parameters

pathname

A string containing the directory to remove. [Edit]

Returns

On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned and Stdlib.GetLastError returns the translated error.

Usage

The named file is removed unless:

Error	Details
Errno.ENOTDIR	A component of the path is not a directory.
Errno.ENAMETOOLONG	A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
Errno.ENOENT	The named directory does not exist.
Errno.ELOOP	Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
Errno.ENOTEMPTY	The named directory contains files other than "" and "" in it.
Errno.EACCES	Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
Errno.EACCES	Write permission is denied on the directory containing the link to be removed.
Errno.EPERM	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.
Errno.EBUSY	The directory to be removed is the mount point for a mounted file system.
Errno.EIO	An I/O error occurred while deleting the directory entry or deallocating the inode.
Errno.EROFS	The directory entry to be removed resides on a read-only file system.
Errno.EFAULT	The path argument points outside the process's allocated address space.

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Remarks

The rmdir() system call removes a directory file whose name is given by path . The directory must not have any entries other than "." and ".." [Edit]

Requirements

Namespace: Mono.Unix.Native
Assembly: Mono.Posix (in Mono.Posix.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0