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- Lines: 9
- Date:
2003-08-25 04:44:43.000000000 -0700
- Orig file:
linux-2.4.21/include/asm-arm/stat.h
- Orig date:
2000-08-01 14:08:00.000000000 -0700
diff -urN linux-2.4.21/include/asm-arm/stat.h linux-2.4.22/include/asm-arm/stat.h
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@
/* This matches struct stat64 in glibc2.1, hence the absolutely
* insane amounts of padding around dev_t's.
+ * Note: The kernel zero's the padded region because glibc might read them
+ * in the hope that the kernel has stretched to using larger sizes.
*/
struct stat64 {
unsigned short st_dev;
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