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

From: "Jan D." <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:04:03 +0100

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.