bug#10458: 24.0.92; ! in dired on a file starting with a hyphen

[Jan D.]

Stefan Monnier skrev 2012-01-09 23:40:
> > > But we could do something like:
> > > foobar ./-toto titi
> > Or stick a "--" after the command (is that a universal convention?)
>
> not only I don't think it's a universal convention, but I can't think of
> any easy reliable way to do that.  E.g. compare
>
>      gcc -o foo -toto.c
> vs
>      gcc -c foo.c -toto.c

It is universal in that it is in POSIX 1003.1.

        Jan D.