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Simplify fs::path by dropping filename() and make_preferred() overloads

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Authored by Ryan Ofsky

93/100 · Strong
Simplify fs::path by dropping filename() and make_preferred() overloads

These overloads were needed to allow passing `fs::path` objects directly to
libstdc++'s `fstream` constructors, but after the previous commit, there is no
longer any remaining code that does pass `fs::path` objects to `fstream`
constructors. Writing new code which does this is also discouraged because the
standard has been updated in https://wg21.link/lwg3430 to disallow it.

Dropping these also means its no longer possible to pass `fs::path` arguments
directly to `fstream::open` in libstdc++, which is somewhat unfortunate but not
a big loss because it is already not possible to pass them to the constructor.
So this commit updates `fstream::open` calls.

Additionally, this change required updates to src/bitcoin.cpp since it was
relying on the overloaded filename() method.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This is a routine code cleanup in Bitcoin Core. It removes helper functions that let custom filesystem path objects be passed directly to C++ file streams, because the project no longer uses them that way and the C++ standard now discourages it. The commit updates a handful of file-opening calls to use the underlying standard path object instead. There is no security bug being fixed here.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as normal maintenance/refactoring.

Security signals we found

No strong security signals were identified.

Risk score

Why this scored 15/100

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Potential impact 0/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 0/15
Confidence 10/10
Evidence quality 5/5
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