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On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard <[email protected]> wrote: > The history was pretty simple. When we had a file called /etc/foo, which we > later to split into a directory full of individual one-entry-per-file > records rather than the previous "all records in a single file", we would > rename /etc/foo to /etc/foo.d to denote the switch. Don't forget, /etc/rc > used to be a single file... > > - Jordan > > On Apr 22, 2009, at 8:09 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> Does anyone know the history behind the ".d" naming convention on some >> directories? >> >> For example, /etc/rc.d or ${prefix}/etc/bash_completion.d. I seem to >> understand how these directories are used, but what does the ".d" mean? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> macports-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev > > _______________________________________________ > macports-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev > _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
