Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hm. Judging from the ext4 patch you proposed, I gather this is > > > expected, at least in the btime case. > > Ugh, I put that in the wrong part -- this was supposed to be a comment > about the part where the manpage states that filesystems can return more > than userspace asked for. In that case, sort of. You could just ask for STATX_TYPE | STATX_MODE, for example, but the kernel is perfectly at liberty to add STATX_MTIME, STATX_SIZE, STATX_INO, etc. even if it doesn't add STATX_BTIME as well. > My eyes are bad at reading manpage source. :/ I know what you mean. David