Renaming config/other files...

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue Nov 9 09:06:29 PST 2004


Anonymous wrote:
> When CUPS renames files, the renamed files get the ".O" suffix which
> is unusual.
> 
> For example: when renaming the old config file [say printers.conf]
> to make a backup after the configuration gets changed,
> the new name ends with an capital ".O" (that is "oh"),
> not ".0" (that is zero).

Nothing unusual about it; we aren't implementing a versioning system,
so .conf.O is the old, .conf.N is the new (as implemented by some
installers), and .conf is the current file.

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