> To put it another way: this inittab/rc?.d stuff has been around in System V
> for what, oh, 12 years now or so?  If it's such a great idea, how come we're
> already to 4.4BSD++ and CSRG never felt the compelling need to implement
> these oh-so-wonderful features into BSD?  I remain unconvinced ...

Given that even Sun have gone SysV now, this argument is not a very
convincing one.

--sjg