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

[P E Smee]

In article <4127 at phri.UUCP> roy at phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>
>	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.

Well, probably because on most of the Unixes I use, I don't get to put
things into /.  On the other hand, suppose I could always put it at
~/-.  Or make myself a single character setenv var...

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