On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:21:02PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> > The difference from your variant is that you use the stack to hold
> > pointers to ancestors of the current victim.  You get to the parent
> > of said victim by discarding a stack frame.  No need, since the
> > victim contained an explicit pointer to its parent...
> 
> Except I thought NULL was passed?

AFAICS, your variant removes _everything_ in the parent.  IOW, instead
of
        rm -rf $ROOT/$RELATIVE_PATH
you do
        test -n $ROOT && rm -rf $ROOT/*
        rm $ROOT/$RELATIVE_PATH
which is not the same thing...
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