Dot files always first in directory?

[Guangliang He]

In article <3540 at udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> conan at vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Robert B Carroll) 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.
>

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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