stat.2: Add a little more detail on history of three versions of *stat()

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2015-04-10 16:31:27 +02:00
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@ -808,8 +808,10 @@ structure have led to three successive versions of
.IR __NR_stat ), .IR __NR_stat ),
and and
.I sys_stat64() .I sys_stat64()
(new in kernel 2.4; slot (slot
.IR __NR_stat64 ). .IR __NR_stat64 ).
The first two of these were already present in Linux 1.0
(albeit with different names); the last was added in Linux 2.4.
The glibc The glibc
.BR stat () .BR stat ()
wrapper function hides these details from applications, wrapper function hides these details from applications,