Remove a direcotry recursively

rmdir.cc

// http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/deleting-a-directory-using-c-in-linux-248696/
// remove directory recursively
// include dirent.h sys/types.h
int rmdir(const char *dirname)
{
    DIR *dir;
    struct dirent *entry;
    char path[PATH_MAX];

    if (path == NULL) { 
        fprintf(stderr, "Out of memory error\n");
        return 0;
    }
    dir = opendir(dirname);
    if (dir == NULL) {
        perror("Error opendir()");
        return 0;
    }

    while ((entry = readdir(dir)) != NULL) {
        if (strcmp(entry->d_name, ".") && strcmp(entry->d_name, "..")) {
            snprintf(path, (size_t) PATH_MAX, "%s/%s", dirname, entry->d_name);
            if (entry->d_type == DT_DIR) {
                rmdir(path);
            }

            remove(path);
        }

    }
    closedir(dir);
    remove(dirname);

    return 1;
}