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Protocols for Interworking: XNFS, Version 3W
Copyright © 1998 The Open Group

Name

NFSPROC_RMDIR - Remove Directory

Call Arguments

struct diropargs { fhandle dir; filename name; };

fhandle and filename are defined in Basic Data Types

Return Arguments

stat status;

stat is defined in Basic Data Types .

RPC Procedure Description

stat NFSPROC_RMDIR(diropargs) = 15;

Description

The existing empty directory name in the directory given by dir is removed. If the reply is NFS_OK, the directory was removed.

Note that this is possibly a non-idempotent operation. A server should attempt to provide this function in an idempotent fashion.

Return Codes

NFS_OK
Indicates that the call completed successfully and the results are valid.

NFSERR_NOENT
No such file or directory. The file or directory specified does not exist.

NFSERR_IO
Some sort of hard error occurred when the operation was in progress. This could be a disk error, for example.

NFSERR_ACCES
Permission denied. The caller does not have the correct permission to perform the requested operation.

NFSERR_NOTDIR
Not a directory. The caller specified a non-directory in a directory operation.

NFSERR_ROFS
Read-only file system. Write attempted on a read-only file system.

NFSERR_NAMETOOLONG

File name too long. The filename in an operation was too long.

NFSERR_NOTEMPTY

Directory not empty. Attempted to remove a directory that was not empty.

NFSERR_STALE
The fhandle given in the arguments was invalid. That is, the file referred to by that file handle no longer exists, or access to it has been revoked.


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