Are . and .. first?

[Ron Kuris]

In article <3540 at udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> conan at vax1.acs.udel.edu (CONAN THE BARBARIAN) writes:
>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.
>

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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