>-f - is a standard convention for a lot of stuff already in the source tree.

i'm not debating that.  i was just noting that it was a hack that
dated back to before the advent of the file descriptor devices.

>Yes, /dev/stdin or /dev/fd could be used (if you've bothered to mount fdesc),

funny...they've always worked for me, but i've never mounted that.

>but in general is never going to be something folks will see as examples or
>would think of. So, adding it in as an option as well just rounds things out.

sure...okay.

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