No worries, I found the source at the gnu ftp side and it wasn't as nearly hard to follow as I expected (I was never a very good programmer to start with and it's been, uh, a "while"). It occurs to me that it's more of a syntactical peculiarity vs. any kind of "bug".
I honestly have no clue how any work gets done on a modern OS, just boggles my mind there are so many moving parts.