Should Perl's opendir always return . and .. first?

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Published on 2010-04-16T15:41:52Z Indexed on 2010/04/17 13:13 UTC
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  opendir MYDIR, "$dir";
  my @FILES = readdir MYDIR;
  closedir MYDIR;

It appears that 99.9 % of the time the first two entries in the array are always “.” and “..”. Later logic in the script has issues if it is not true. I ran into a case where the directory entries appeared later. Is this indicative of the file system being corrupt or something else? Is there a known order to what opendir returns?

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