Usually when I read these writeups, I walk away thinking "Wow, $foo was a more complicated problem than I thought". With this one, it was "Wow, $foo was a simp

Usually when I read these writeups, I walk away thinking "Wow, $foo was a more complicated problem than I thought". With this one, it was "Wow, $foo was a simpler problem than I thought and Unix (and thus Linux and OSX) just totally screwed it up for no reason"