* Andreas Dilger: >> So what's the point exactly? > > Ah, I see your point... STATX_ALL seems to be mostly useful for the kernel > to mask off flags that it doesn't currently understand. It doesn't make > much sense for applications to specify STATX_ALL, since they don't have any > way to know what each flag means unless they are hard-coded to check each of > the STATX_* flags individually. They should build up a mask of STATX_* flags > based on what they care about (e.g. "find" should only request attributes > based on the command-line options given). Could you remove it from the UAPI header? I didn't want to put it into the glibc header, but was overruled.