Re: Where did . come from

On 3/23/2016 9:29 PM, hgntk...@vfemail.net wrote: > Granted, you need something to signify that a file is a dir (remember, > in linux everything is a file), and what the parent dir is. > I'm assuming that the kernel folks decided the name, or at least have > some idea about it. > I'm not objecting,

Where did . come from

Granted, you need something to signify that a file is a dir (remember, in linux everything is a file), and what the parent dir is. I'm assuming that the kernel folks decided the name, or at least have some idea about it. I'm not objecting, it's fine, I just want to know this history behind the deci