/* Create a new FIFO named PATH, with permission bits MODE. */
extern int mkfifo __P ((__const char *__path, __mode_t __mode));
+\f
+/* To allow the `struct stat' structure and the file type `mode_t' bits to
+ vary without changing shared library major version number, the `stat'
+ family of functions and `mknod' are in fact inline wrappers around calls
+ to `xstat', `fxstat', `lxstat', and `xmknod', which all take a leading
+ version-number argument designating the data structure and bits used.
+ <statbuf.h> defines _STAT_VER with the version number corresponding to
+ `struct stat' as defined in that file; and _MKNOD_VER with the version
+ number corresponding to the S_IF* macros defined therein. It is
+ arranged that when not inlined these function are always statically
+ linked; that way a dynamically-linked executable always encodes the
+ version number corresponding to the data structures it uses, so the `x'
+ functions in the shared library can adapt without needing to recompile
+ all callers. */
+
+#ifndef _STAT_VER
+#define _STAT_VER 0
+#endif
+#ifndef _MKNOD_VER
+#define _MKNOD_VER 0
+#endif
+
+/* Wrappers for stat and mknod system calls. */
+extern int __fxstat __P ((int __ver, int __fildes,
+ struct stat *__stat_buf));
+extern int __xstat __P ((int __ver, __const char *__filename,
+ struct stat *__stat_buf));
+extern int __lxstat __P ((int __ver, __const char *__filename,
+ struct stat *__stat_buf));
+extern int __xmknod __P ((int __ver, __const char *__path,
+ __mode_t __mode, __dev_t *__dev));
+
+#if defined (__GNUC__) && __GNUC__ >= 2
+/* Inlined versions of the real stat and mknod functions. */
+
+extern __inline__ int __stat (__const char *__path, struct stat *__statbuf)
+{ return __xstat (_STAT_VER, __path, __statbuf); }
+extern __inline__ int stat (__const char *__path, struct stat *__statbuf)
+{ return __xstat (_STAT_VER, __path, __statbuf); }
+
+extern __inline__ int __lstat(__const char *__path, struct stat *__statbuf)
+{ return __lxstat (_STAT_VER, __path, __statbuf); }
+extern __inline__ int lstat(__const char *__path, struct stat *__statbuf)
+{ return __lxstat (_STAT_VER, __path, __statbuf); }
+
+extern __inline__ int __fstat (int __fd, struct stat *__statbuf)
+{ return __fxstat (_STAT_VER, __fd, __statbuf); }
+extern __inline__ int fstat (int __fd, struct stat *__statbuf)
+{ return __fxstat (_STAT_VER, __fd, __statbuf); }
+
+extern __inline__ int __mknod (__const char *__path, __mode_t __mode,
+ __dev_t __dev)
+{ return __xmknod (_MKNOD_VER, __path, __mode, &__dev); }
+#if defined(__USE_MISC) || defined(__USE_BSD)
+extern __inline__ int mknod (__const char *__path, __mode_t __mode,
+ __dev_t __dev)
+{ return __xmknod (_MKNOD_VER, __path, __mode, &__dev); }
+#endif
+
+#endif
__END_DECLS
+
#endif /* sys/stat.h */