Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] tla dosen't handle '--' as end of option argument

[Tom Lord]

    > From: "Tobias C. Rittweiler" <address@hidden>

    > On Sunday, September 12, 2004 at 12:30:17 AM, 
    >     Yann Droneaud <address@hidden> wrote:

    > > (And a '--file-list' without argument or '--file-list -' that read
    > > standard input could be handy too: i will try to propose a patch for
    > > that ).

    > Some systems provide a /dev/stdio device which you can use for that.
    > It's non-portable though.

Such conventions can be layered portably on minimal Posix by using the
file namespace hacks in the vu_ modules.

There is, indeed, a module there that, if installed by the client
application, treats opens of `-' for reading as descriptor 0 and for
writing as descriptor 1.

It's not that the `-' convention is one to etch in stone (though I
like it, personally) --- just that a portable mechanism is there in vu
so that if a convention is settled upon, it can be hacked up in `vu'.

-t