Using opendir() with a filePro file name

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:20:36PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> > where lc is a counter that begins at "3", so that I skip "." and "..".
> 
> What makes you think . and .. are necessarily going to be entries 1 and 2?

On a *nix system with standard semantics, if you walk the directory in
unsorted order, they are in fact guaranteed to be entries 1 and 2:
they're populated when the directory is created, atomically.

I suspect SUS or SVID specifies this.

Cheers,
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