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The PSEUDO_STATBUF change (allowing operations on files over
2GB even on 32-bit systems) introduced a subtle bug; by calling
stat64() rather than real_stat(), pseudo stopped handling
chrooted paths well. In most cases, this was fine, but in the
specific case of a rename, where the stat buffers for the various
parts were actually used, it wasn't. Of particular note, pseudo
could end up creating links which had stack garbage for their
stat buffs, because it assumed that if the rename operation
succeeded, the stat operations must have succeeded.
Of course, there is no real_stat64 in the Linux port, because
there's no need for it; most code is calling __xstat64 or some
relative thereof, and even if you did really call stat64, it'd
end up routed there anyway. So we add that so that it can be
used for calls and we don't have to encode Linux-specific
magic about __xstat into the generic header.
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Peter Seebach