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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Dot files always first in directory?
Message-ID: <10210@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 4 May 89 16:06:24 GMT
References: <11108@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <11108@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
-It it safe to assume when writing a program which manipulates
-directories that . and .. will always be the first two entries in a
-directory?

No, they're not present in some remote filesystem directories.