- - - Note 1 submitted by Dave Gilbert on 18 Aug 2002 15:31:11 (UTC) - - -
Hi,
For reasons of great complexity I found out the hard way that the
kernel must (and does) zero the pad sections in the stat structures.
Here is a comment that states this for the next person who needs to
know. 

--- linux/include/asm-arm/stat.h.predag	2002-08-18 16:11:15.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/include/asm-arm/stat.h	2002-08-18 16:25:19.000000000 +0100
@@ -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;