Its for cron jobs that dont fit into the periodic folders, say every five minutes or bi-weekly. Also you can use regular crontab syntax, the periodics should only contain shell scripts. You can add shell scripts to the periodics without having to worry about restarting cron. You also have a /var/spool/cron where cron stores users jobs done via crontab -e as /var/spool/cron/username. Distros handle the various calls with different scripts but the above holds true for linux and Unix AFAIK.
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