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From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Dot files always first in directory?
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Date: 5 May 89 14:37:15 GMT
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In article <2778@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:

>To beat this horse quite dead, any leading character that would sort before
>the period will place the filename before the . and .. in a directory
>listing.

That's because "ls" sorts the directory entries by default. The original
question was about readdir() which doesn't. Use "od" or write a small
program using opendir() and readdir() and you'll see that "." and ".."
are the first and second entries.
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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