some people got confused by the '\' line continuation marker, thus put everything in a single line, even if the line gets overly long.

When ngIRCd restarts, all the connection counters are preserved now, as well as the command counters for example. It's unclear if resetting or not resetting is the "correct" behaviour, but it's quite clear that the behaviour should be consistent for all the counters ngIRCd uses ... And initializing "WCounter", the global but temporary write counter, is not necessarry at all: it is initialized (reset) before its use in the command parser (see parse.c).

The RPL_STATSCONN numeric (250) displays information about the highest simoultaneous connection count and the number of all accepted connections since the daemon started up. Used by ircd-Hybrid, Bahamut, and Unreal for example.

This patch enables ngIRCd to count the highest maximum simultaneous connections and all the connections accepted since startup. New functions: - Conn_Count(): get current connections - Conn_CountMax(): maximum simultaneous connections - Conn_CountAccepted(): number of connections accepted

This solves warning messages of autoconf on e.g. FreeBSD 8: configure: WARNING: netinet/ip.h: present but cannot be compiled configure: WARNING: netinet/ip.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?

This fixes the following error when compiling on e.g. FreeBSD 6.x: In file included from conn.c:40: /usr/include/netinet/ip.h:160: error: syntax error before "n_long" /usr/include/netinet/ip.h:163: error: syntax error before "n_long"

This patch fixes two warnings of gcc 4.4.3 when used with eglibc 2.11.1: ngircd.c: In function ‘NGIRCd_Init’: ngircd.c:801: warning: ignoring return value of ‘chdir’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result conn.c: In function ‘Simple_Message’: conn.c:2041: warning: ignoring return value of ‘write’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result The first by checking the return code and an appropriate error message, the second by "better" ignoring it (which is correct there!) ...

This fixes "resolve.c:150: warning: ‘Get_Error’ defined but not used".

Silly me forgot the most important place, the program output itself ...

dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libnsl.so.1 [..] (they use none of its symbols). As shown via commit 2b14234abc252383679bae2d23861b773dc9713e (dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libnsl.so.1) and the following revert of that commit, we cannot simply drop the AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl). Although -lnsl is indeed unneeded when glibc is used, some platforms (e.g. Solaris) need it. Use AC_SEARCH_LIBS instead to only link when the library exports a particular symbol.

The WEBIRC command is used by some Web-to-IRC gateways to set the correct user name and host name of users instead of their own. Syntax: WEBIRC <password> <username> <hostname> <ip-address> The <password> must be set using the new configuration variable "WebircPassword" in the [Global] section of ngircd.conf. Please note that the <ip-address> is currently not used by ngIRCd (we don't store it in the CLIENT structure, only the resolved hostname).