On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Ib-Michael Martinsen wrote:

>Hi there!
>
>The header says it all. I can delete a file using the unlink function,
>but when I use unlink on an empty directory, it returns -1 and errno
>is set to 21.
>
>'man errno' shows
>
>21 EISDIR Is a directory. An attempt was made to open a directory with
>             write mode specified.
>
>I guess the directory in case must be the parent directory to the one I
>want to delete. The user (owner) has write access to both directories.
>
>Furthermore, according to 'man unlink' the error EISDIR can not happen
>at all, so why does it?
>
>Is there any other way to delete a directory?
>

at the bottom of the man page for unlink there is a refrence to rmdir(2) in
the 'see also' section. it does exactly what you want ;-)

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