_rmdir, _wrmdir

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07/22/2011

Deletes a directory.

int _rmdir(
   const char *dirname 
);
int _wrmdir(
   const wchar_t *dirname 
);

Parameters

dirname
Path of the directory to be removed.

Return Value

Each of these functions returns 0 if the directory is successfully deleted. A return value of –1 indicates an error and errno is set to one of the following values:

ENOTEMPTY
Given path is not a directory, the directory is not empty, or the directory is either the current working directory or the root directory.
ENOENT
Path is invalid.
EACCES
A program has an open handle to the directory.

For more information about these and other return codes, see _doserrno, errno, _sys_errlist, and _sys_nerr.

Remarks

The _rmdir function deletes the directory specified by dirname. The directory must be empty, and it must not be the current working directory or the root directory.

_wrmdir is a wide-character version of _rmdir; the dirname argument to _wrmdir is a wide-character string. _wrmdir and _rmdir behave identically otherwise.

Generic-Text Routine Mappings

Tchar.h routine	_UNICODE and _MBCS not defined	_MBCS defined	_UNICODE defined
_trmdir	_rmdir	_rmdir	_wrmdir

Requirements

Routine	Required header
_rmdir	<direct.h>
_wrmdir	<direct.h> or <wchar.h>

For more compatibility information, see Compatibility in the Introduction.

Libraries

All versions of the C run-time libraries.

Example

See the example for _mkdir.

.NET Framework Equivalent

System::IO::Directory::Delete

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