one path succeeds and another fails, the overall result will be
failure. If one succeeds, one fails, and one causes an error, then the
overall result will be an error; and so on.
+.P
+The \fB\-\-recursive\fR flag modifies this behavior. Due to an
+implementation detail, the recursive operation will return
+EXIT_SUCCESS even if it encounters links or inaccessible paths during
+the traversal. Beware; this means that manually supplying all children
+of a directory on the command-line does not act the same as operating
+on that directory recursively.