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

[Yann Droneaud]

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

> On Monday, September 13, 2004 at 12:01:35 AM, 
>     Tom Lord <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
>>     > 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.
>
> Actually, my intention was to say that there may be a kludge good enough
> for Yann's purpose as long as he doesn't require any real portability
> (like for homebrewn scripts), so that he doesn't necessarily need to
> hack tla.
>

currenlty I don't have any special needs for it.

But wrappers could benefit from this to directly pipe file list to tla
without to worry about the creation of a temporary files or,  
if using '--',  any command line limitation such as odd filename,
shell escaping, line length and argument count.

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