From: reed@reedmedia.net (Jeremy C. Reed)
Subject: [TUHS] Again about etymology: rc
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 16:14:55 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.11.1603231600100.15253@t1.m.reedmedia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-e0dd3f63-baa1-4c8c-9a96-128bdb17f897-1458760805118@3capp-mailcom-lxa01>
On Wed, 23 Mar 2016, Rocky Hotas wrote:
> "The rc command appeared in 4.0BSD" (from HISTORY).
I see that history added in the CSRG sccs revision 6.2 on 91/03/16. I
don't know why it says that as it was in 3BSD too. The /etc/rc concept
wasn't new in 4BSD.
The script was rewritten though for 4BSD to be used for "autoboot". Init
was extended to run /etc/rc to do a fsck if not booting single user
mode. (And if the fsck failed it could go into single user mode.)
The history should be fixed to be more clear about.
(For fun, read the usr/man/man0/changes from 4.0BSD about autoboot and
reboot.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-23 21:14 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
2016-03-23 19:53 ` Mantas Mikulėnas
2016-03-23 19:57 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-03-23 21:14 ` Jeremy C. Reed [this message]
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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