Re: What does .d at the end of some dirctory and filenames actually stand for?

[The Fungi <fungi@yuggoth.org>]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 02:20:52PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
[...]
> The most common convention adopted was to permit including a directory
> full of configuration files, where anything dropped into that directory
> would become active and part of that configuration.  As that convention
> became more widespread, that directory was usually named after the
> configuration file that it was replacing or augmenting.  But since one
> cannot have a directory and a file with the same name, some method was
> required to distinguish, so .d was appended to the end of the
> configuration file name.
[...]

The earliest example of this precedent which springs to mind is
replacement of the monolothic /etc/rc boot script with an /etc/rc.d
directory.
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