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diff --git a/io.c b/io.c
index b58eff0c..39996885 100644
--- a/io.c
+++ b/io.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-/* 
-   Copyright (C) Andrew Tridgell 1996
+/* -*- c-file-style: "linux" -*-
+   
+   Copyright (C) 1996-2000 by Andrew Tridgell 
    Copyright (C) Paul Mackerras 1996
    
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -103,9 +104,15 @@ static void read_error_fd(void)
 
 static int no_flush;
 
-/* read from a socket with IO timeout. return the number of
-   bytes read. If no bytes can be read then exit, never return
-   a number <= 0 */
+/*
+ * Read from a socket with IO timeout. return the number of bytes
+ * read. If no bytes can be read then exit, never return a number <= 0.
+ *
+ * TODO: If the remote shell connection fails, then current versions actually
+ * report an "unexpected EOF" error here.  Since it's a fairly common mistake
+ * to try to use rsh when ssh is required, we should trap that: if we fail
+ * to read any data at all, we should give a better explanation.
+ */
 static int read_timeout(int fd, char *buf, int len)
 {
 	int n, ret=0;
@@ -507,6 +514,11 @@ void write_int(int f,int32 x)
 	writefd(f,b,4);
 }
 
+
+/*
+ * Note: int64 may actually be a 32-bit type if ./configure couldn't find any
+ * 64-bit types on this platform.
+ */
 void write_longint(int f, int64 x)
 {
 	extern int remote_version;