Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> So far it seems to be OK, but wouldn't it be safer to disallow all
> options to ftp which start with "--"? I understand that you have checked
> it with your ftp client, but you cannot assume that everybody uses the same
> version of ftp and ls as you do. Samr for the ftp server.

As you prefer.  

This patch disallow
   (string-match "--\\w\\{2,\\}" switches)
which should be enough to capture switches starting with --, I guess.

—Rasmus

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