According to "perldoc -m File::Path" for the module at location: /opt/gnu/lib/perl5/5.00502/File/Path.pm (on my system) The version is: $VERSION = "1.0401"; (taken from the code).

Also in the code I see:

It returns the number of files successfully deleted.  Symlinks are
treated as ordinary files.

B<NOTE:> If the third parameter is not TRUE, C<rmtree> is B<unsecure>
in the face of failure or interruption.  Files and directories which
were not deleted may be left with permissions reset to allow world
read and write access.  Note also that the occurrence of errors in
rmtree can be determined I<only> by trapping diagnostic messages
using C<$SIG{__WARN__}>; it is not apparent from the return value.
Therefore, you must be extremely careful about using C<rmtree($foo,$ba
+r,0>
in situations where security is an issue.
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This tells me that this is a version that should be signalling the the __WARN__ for failures. I see that when a file cannot be unlinked it uses carp to throw a warning:(Snippet from File::Path 1.0401)

unless (unlink $root) {
  carp "Can't unlink file $root: $!";
  if ($force_writeable) {
    chmod $rp, $root
    or carp("and can't restore permissions to "
    . sprintf("0%o",$rp) . "\n");
  }
  last;
}
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But my code is not catching the __WARN__ signal.

$SIG{'__WARN__'} = sub { die $_[0] };
rmtree("/tmp/tempdir",0,1);
$SIG{'__WARN__'} = 'DEFAULT';
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Thanks for continuing to help with this.

-Shannon