From: w00t <w00t@e03df62e-2008-0410-955e-edbf42e46eb7>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:50:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document the need for the fake client
X-Git-Tag: v2.0.23~4638
X-Git-Url: https://git.netwichtig.de/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7d241d39ff055fdb52ce8dc1db0058e7e9a92eb4;p=user%2Fhenk%2Fcode%2Finspircd.git

Document the need for the fake client

git-svn-id: http://svn.inspircd.org/repository/trunk/inspircd@7944 e03df62e-2008-0410-955e-edbf42e46eb7
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diff --git a/include/inspircd.h b/include/inspircd.h
index dbbc0375e..bc8055f67 100644
--- a/include/inspircd.h
+++ b/include/inspircd.h
@@ -396,6 +396,12 @@ class CoreExport InspIRCd : public classbase
 	std::map<InspSocket*,InspSocket*> SocketCull;
 
 	/** Globally accessible fake user record. This is used to force mode changes etc across s2s, etc.. bit ugly, but.. better than how this was done in 1.1
+	 * Reason for it:
+	 * kludge alert!
+	 * SendMode expects a userrec* to send the numeric replies
+	 * back to, so we create it a fake user that isnt in the user
+	 * hash and set its descriptor to FD_MAGIC_NUMBER so the data
+	 * falls into the abyss :p
 	 */
 	userrec *FakeClient;