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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:39:47 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:27:30 -0500
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
> 
> > But we could do something like:
> >
> >    foobar ./-toto titi
> 
> Or stick a "--" after the command (is that a universal convention?).

AFAIK, -- is supported only by GNU getopt (and maybe compatibles).  I
think there's no guarantee that an arbitrary program will support it.