argh!

[Ulrich Drepper]

I have restored the fstat.  Though I'm absolutely not pleased with
this since the problem this patch solves but ultimately be solved
differently.

Anyhow, I haven't used Zack's complex patch which checks for effective
O_DIRECTORY etc since it could introduce extra problems (who knows
whether the implementation of open on all filesystems on a system is
the same wrt opening file ending with a slash) and the saved time of
fstat call is wasted in many ifs and larger code.


I think that during the glibc 2.2 development we will have to come up
with a scheme which allows to eliminate effectively dead code.  E.g.,
I'll certainly not run a 2.0 kernel anymore and therefore all
compatibility code should be avoided.  Maybe somebody can already
start thinking about this :-)

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