>>>>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 13:20:36 -0500 (EST),
      der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> said:

> but the only difference I can see is that -delete may fail to delete
> something if fts() doesn't happen to have chosen to chdir() into its
> parent directory.

There is other difference. 
i.e. The pathnames passed as find(1)'s arguments.
For example, just trace the following command:
	mkdir -p /tmp/a
	find /tmp/a -delete

Maybe -delete should only allow "." as its argument.
But I'm not sure.
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soda