Why upper case configuration file names in BSD? - TUHS

3 Feb 2000

I've just been asked a rather unusual question: when you build a BSD
kernel, the name of the configuration file is traditionally upper
case.  Does anybody have insight as to why this should be?

Greg
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 >>>> "Greg" == Greg Lehey
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Greg> I've just been asked a rather unusual question: when you build a BSD
Greg> kernel, the name of the configuration file is traditionally upper
Greg> case.  Does anybody have insight as to why this should be?

The same reason that Makefile has an upper-case first letter -- so it
appears early in an ls listing, rather than in the middle of a big
long list.

Peter C

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