holler ("Preposterous fd value %d", fd);

(I just had to debug a descriptor mess and this style of freewheeling 90’s-style documentation rejuvenated me w/r/t all of that, hah)

In fact, Windows builds with -DGAPING_SECURITY_HOLE is pretty much the reason why Windows virus scanners detect nc.exe. (The #define enables the -e flag, which starts processes with stdio redirected over the network when the connection succeeds.)

My favorite function names: gethostpoop and getportpoop, hailing from the get*poop family.