From: dds@aueb.gr (Diomidis Spinellis)
Subject: [TUHS] Again about etymology: rc
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 21:38:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56F2F0B5.6080309@aueb.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-e0dd3f63-baa1-4c8c-9a96-128bdb17f897-1458760805118@3capp-mailcom-lxa01>
According to "The New Hacker's Dictionary" (Eric Raymond, MIT Press,
1991) "the startup script /etc/rc is commonly believed to have been
named after older scripts to 'run commands'". This name was then
adopted by other scripts.
On 23/03/2016 21:20, Rocky Hotas wrote:
> About the History of Unix, I was wondering with another guy why the rc script has that name. As many of you already know, and according to NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD (current) manual,
>
> "The rc utility is the command script which controls" the startup of various services, "and is invoked by init(8)" (from DESCRIPTION).
> "The rc command appeared in 4.0BSD" (from HISTORY).
>
> Words may slightly change between the three distributions, but the meaning and the informations provided are the same. So, the etymology of rc does not appear in the man pages. Do you know how to recover it? Do (or did) the letters rc have some meaning in this context?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-23 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-23 19:20 Rocky Hotas
2016-03-23 19:30 ` Dan Cross
2016-03-23 19:38 ` Diomidis Spinellis [this message]
2016-03-23 19:53 ` Mantas Mikulėnas
2016-03-23 19:57 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-03-23 21:14 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2016-03-24 9:59 ` Rocky Hotas
2016-03-24 6:59 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-25 1:19 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-23 22:06 Noel Chiappa
2016-03-24 0:09 ` Clem Cole
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