On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Fritz Zaucker <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Derrell Lipman wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 8:25 AM, thron7 <[email protected]
> >wrote:
> >>> There's some common place for the equivalent of "rc" (start-up
> >>> configuration) files on Windows too IIRC, but I don't remember where
> >>> that is. It'd be nice to have similar functionality on all platforms
> >>> if possible.
> >>
> >>
> >> What are you refering to, Derrell? How should the system start-up
> >> configuration (I'm thinking of /etc/rc.d or /etc/init.d/rc.*) have
> >> anything to do with qooxdoo?
> >>
> >
> > Ignore the words "start-up" and it makes more sense. This has nothing to
> > do with starting up applications; rather to do with a configuration file
> > that is read at start-up of an application. Hopefully I've described it
> > better in bug #2448.
>
> rc is unfortunately used in various contexts in *ix, or, perhaps, it is
> actually used surprisingly consistent ... ;-)
>
For historical perspective, "rc" stands for "run command" and was initially,
IIRC, exclusively used by shells. The commands in .cshrc for example would
be run when the "C shell" (csh) was starting up. (The original Bourne shell,
which predate's Bill Joy's "C shell", the Korn shell (ksh), and of course
the Bourne Again Shell (bash), used the now-quite-familiar ".profile" I
think.) These days, "rc" is used for much more than a series of commands to
run, but even in other users, e.g. the start-up scripts in /etc/init.d in
many Linux distributions, they are in fact "running commands". Numerous
applications use a configuration file these days, named "~/."+app+"rc" with
an appropriate value of app.
D
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