patch-2.4.22 linux-2.4.22/include/asm-arm/stat.h

• 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;