Unix SunOS 5.6 environment and Perl 5.005_02.

According to the man page for the File::Path module, when using rmtree I should be able to catch warnings with rmtree. Will this catch warnings when rmtree fails to remove a file with the following usage:
rmtree("/tmp/tempdir",0,1);

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Let's say I don't have permission to remove the file "foo" in the tempdir directory. I would then be unable to remove the tempdir directory. Will I get a warning with this? I have tried to setup the following to catch a warning:
$SIG{'__WARN__'} = sub { die $_[0] };
rmtree("/tmp/tempdir",0,1);
$SIG{'__WARN__'} = 'DEFAULT';

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But I am not catching a warning for failure to remove the directory or it's contents.

Any help with this would be great. For now I am just verifying that the directory is gone with a (-d <dir>) and, while that works, I don't get details about the failure. I was under the impression that because the return value from rmtree is the number of files removed that I had to catch the __WARN__ signal to know that it failed and to get the details.

All help is greatly appreciated.

Shannon

In reply to rmtree __WARN__ by skerr1

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