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From: rk@unify.UUCP (Ron Kuris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Are . and .. first?
Message-ID: <749@unify.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 89 20:55:47 GMT
Reply-To: rk@unify.UUCP (Ron Kuris)
Organization: Unify Corporation, Sacramento, CA, USA
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In article <3540@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> conan@vax1.acs.udel.edu (CONAN THE BARBARIAN) 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.
>

I did this, and then said "od -c <dirname>" and lo and behold -- . and ..
were first!  Remember that ls sorts files before outputting them.

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