New function: rmdir.

* sysif.c (rmdir_wrap): New static function.
(sysif_init): rmdir intrinsic registered.

* txr.1: Documented.

2 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sysif.c b/sysif.c
index e6402858..567cff44 100644
--- a/sysif.c
+++ b/sysif.c
@@ -437,6 +437,21 @@ val getcwd_wrap(void)
     }
   }
 }
+
+static val rmdir_wrap(val path)
+{
+  char *u8path = utf8_dup_to(c_str(path));
+  int err = rmdir(u8path);
+  free(u8path);
+
+  if (err < 0) {
+    int eno = errno;
+    uw_throwf(errno_to_file_error(eno), lit("rmdir ~a: ~d/~s"),
+              path, num(eno), string_utf8(strerror(eno)), nao);
+  }
+
+  return t;
+}
 #endif
 
 #if HAVE_MAKEDEV
@@ -2116,6 +2131,7 @@ void sysif_init(void)
 #if HAVE_UNISTD_H
   reg_fun(intern(lit("chdir"), user_package), func_n1(chdir_wrap));
   reg_fun(intern(lit("pwd"), user_package), func_n0(getcwd_wrap));
+  reg_fun(intern(lit("rmdir"), user_package), func_n1(rmdir_wrap));
 #endif
 
 #if HAVE_MAKEDEV
diff --git a/txr.1 b/txr.1
index 0510b7f9..ebce3c06 100644
--- a/txr.1
+++ b/txr.1
@@ -57536,6 +57536,26 @@ other than
 .codn ERANGE ,
 an exception will be thrown.
 
+.coNP Function @ rmdir
+.synb
+.mets (rmdir << path )
+.syne
+.desc
+The
+.code rmdir
+function removes the directory named by
+.codn path .
+If successful, it returns
+.metn t ,
+otherwise it throws an exception of type
+.codn file-error .
+
+Note:
+.code rmdir
+calls the same-named POSIX function, which requires
+.code path
+to be the name of an empty directory.
+
 .coNP Function @ remove-path
 .synb
 .mets (remove-path < path <> [ throw-on-error-p ])