find: handle leading -- argument

function                                             old     new   delta
find_main                                            464     478     +14

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/findutils/find.c b/findutils/find.c
index 6407c6c5a..06ad1b39c 100644
--- a/findutils/find.c
+++ b/findutils/find.c
@@ -1467,6 +1467,12 @@ int find_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
                         break;
                 if (!saved[1])
                         break; /* it is "-" */
+                if (saved[1] == '-' && !saved[2]) {
+                        /* it is "--" */
+                        /* Try: find -- /dev/null */
+                        saved = *++past_HLP;
+                        break;
+                }
                 if ((saved+1)[strspn(saved+1, "HLP")] != '\0')
                         break;
         }