It was a little weird working on my own code from so long ago, but...
We needed this patch on our local version of setup to fix a deadlock
between the FTP data socket and the PASV command, the RFC suggests
closing out the data socket before starting the next transaction, so
that's what this tries
> Well - personally I thought you had gcc to support all your
> platforms, which for ages has supported either style of
> comment... there's only a few relics I've run across which were
> barely even functional as compilers that didn't support it :)
gcc and binutils are the two packages that are
> Don't you mean C99 style comments?
If I had meant C99, I would have said C99.
> Would be portable if the world adopted a standard now 2 years old...
You may dream all you like, but "portable" means "works on all the
systems we support". We cannot control the systems. We can control
our sou
> + // RH: prevent generating reimported functions
Do not use C++ style comments in C code. It is non-portable.
