This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
later be applied to a number of programs (inetd for instance) to clean
out the bogus code doing the same thing, modulus all the bugs.
If you need to read a '#'-is-a-comment-file, please use these routines.
I realize that the shlib# should be bumped (for the non-US world:
increased by something), but will defer this until something significant
happens.
