Question about GETOPT(3) (Really about using "-" for /dev/stdin)

[Roy Smith]

In <1989Nov15.183752.19153 at gdt.bath.ac.uk> exspes at gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee):
> Yeah, I know all about /dev/*, and don't have any trouble with the idea
> of /dev/stdin *existing*.  However, I *don't* want to have to type it.
> [...] there must be some one or two char string going spare.

	Why not just make a symbolic link from /- to /dev/stdin?  Then you
can have your two character string and the rest of us don't get our kernels
and/or standard libraries cluttered up with stuff we don't want.
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