|> They changed FILE, which is much more likely to be passed around
|> between libraries. Perhaps the glibc people were in code freeze.
FILE is very different. It is an opaque type that you must never allocate
by yourself (neither statically nor dynamically), you only ever pass
pointers to it around. On the other hand, struct stat must be allocated
by the caller, thus if you change its size all hell breaks loose.
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