On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 06:10:48PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > We have four generations of stat() syscalls: > - the oldstat syscalls that are only used on the older architectures > - the newstat family that is used on all 64-bit architectures but > lacked support for large files on 32-bit architectures. > - the stat64 family that is used mostly on 32-bit architectures to > replace newstat > - statx() to replace all of the above, adding 64-bit timestamps among > other things. > > We already compile stat64 only on those architectures that need it, > but newstat is always built, including on those that don't reference > it. This adds a new __ARCH_WANT_NEW_STAT symbol along the lines of > __ARCH_WANT_OLD_STAT and __ARCH_WANT_STAT64 to control compilation of > newstat. All architectures that need it use an explict define, the > others now get a little bit smaller, and future architecture (including > 64-bit targets) won't ever see it. > > Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Do I read this right that you only want to provide statx by default? It is a little different from the traditional stat calls, so I'd like to know this is actually ok from libc folks first.
