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diff --git a/src/common/readwrite.h b/src/common/readwrite.h
index 4aebdbc..b61230f 100644
--- a/src/common/readwrite.h
+++ b/src/common/readwrite.h
@@ -22,7 +22,9 @@ extern void try_fputc(uint8_t c, FILE * file, char * f);
 
 /* Wrapper to calling fgetc() and fgets() from function "f". The return code is
  * returned unless ferror() indicates an error (i.e. to signify an end of file,
- * fgetc() may return an EOF and fgets() a NULL).
+ * fgetc() may return an EOF and fgets() a NULL). try_fgetc() calls clearerr()
+ * on "file" before fgetc(), because some Unixes fgetc() remember old EOFs and
+ * only return those until explicitely cleared.
  */
 extern int try_fgetc(FILE * file, char * f);
 extern char * try_fgets(char * line, int size, FILE * file, char * f);