This was on a DEC Tru64 system, very far from any sort of Linux. My personal suspicion is that someone (student or faculty) got their hands on a CVS snapshot a

This was on a DEC Tru64 system, very far from any sort of Linux. My personal suspicion is that someone (student or faculty) got their hands on a CVS snapshot and installed it system wide. That's the only explanation I can think of for it being so broken.