You see what I mean?
- It's a shared system library.
- Having a complex hack held together by duct tape introduces bugs. Also, see 1.
- Did you read >>17 or >>18? Feel free to explain how inittab has the same properties.
- Because it's piss poor. We should all still be using Fortran too.
> there's nothing wrong with using separate programs to handle this.
On the contrary, there is. Did you read either of the links I provided?