# Initialize the Stat structure · gitcafe/zig

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Author: Frank Denis

Committer: Frank Denis

## Message

```
Initialize the Stat structure

The system `stat` structure includes padding, and, on some
operating systems such as all BSDs, "spare" bytes at the end.

We can't reliably compare two `Stat` values if these are
uninitialized, while being later compared.

This is what was causing the `fstatat` test to fail on FreeBSD
since the update to LLVM 12. It was previously only passing by
accident.

```

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