Dot files always first in directory?

[Robert B Carroll]

In article <11108 at bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> jik at 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.




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