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From: ghe@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Guangliang He)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Dot files always first in directory?
Message-ID: <10406@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 5 May 89 16:27:02 GMT
References: <11108@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <3540@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
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In article <3540@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> conan@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Robert B Carroll) writes:
>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, its not save to assume that.
>try "touch #abcd" then 'list' the directory.
>

Yes, 'ls' shows #abcd before '.' and '..' . *BUT* if you read the directory
in a C program, it still shows that #abcd is sitting behind '.' and '..' .

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