On Sun, 2024-06-30 at 21:38 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Maybe it's time and declarate the idea to deprecate stat a failure > and we just add it back to the new generic ABI syscalls? > The idea to get rid of layers of backwards compatibility was a good one > and mostly succeeded, but having to deal with not only remapping > the structure but also the empty path issues sounds like it is worth > to just add these pretty trivial system calls back and make everyones > life easier? Maybe but we'll need to make time_t 64-bit. I.e. adding stat_time64, fstat_time64, and fstatat_time64. Or maybe just redesign a new syscall which is a improved statx with empty path issue and remapping issue solved. (With statx itself it seems impossible to solve the remapping issue...) -- Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xxxxxxxxxxx> School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University
