> > So, having done that, I'm curious: why does run-parts have such a narrow > view of a "valid filename". It's there for a reason, else why write the > validation code? > > I'm just curious, but it would be nice to know. >
my guess is that Debian calls the directories to be run by run-parts foo.d so having the files contained not have dots is just for sanity. Would foo.d/bar.s be a file or a directory? The other reason is that the sanity checker is called once for every file, so having it as simple as possible makes it as fast as possible.
