This function is used to send "error messages", including numerics,
back to clients and to automatically enforce a 2 second penalty. With
this patch, all error results enforces a delay for the client.
All callers of IRC_WriteStrClient(ERR_xxx) have been converted.
Please note that this patch prolongs the time "make check" needs
to complete its tests, because of lots of new enforced penalties ...
Now ngIRCd uses two fields internally, one to store the "real" hostname
and one to save the "cloaked" hostname. And both fields can be set
independently using the "METADATA host" and "METADATA cloakhost" commands.
This allows "foreign servers" (aka "IRC services") to alter the real and
cloaked hostnames of clients without problems, even when the user itself
issues additional "MODE +x" and "MODE -x" commands.
The METADATA command can be used by other servers to update "metadata"
of registered clients, like the client info text ("real name"), user
name, and hostname:
:<prefix> METADATA <target> <key> :<value>
It is distributed in the network, unknown <key> names are silently ignored
and passed on, too. This allows for further extensions.
Alexander Barton