On older kernels without statx, glibc with statx support will attempt to emulate the call. However it doesn't support AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC and will return EINVAL. This causes all xstat/xlstat calls to fail. Signed-off-by: Doug Nazar <nazard@xxxxxxxx> --- support/misc/xstat.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/support/misc/xstat.c b/support/misc/xstat.c index 661e29e4..a438fbcc 100644 --- a/support/misc/xstat.c +++ b/support/misc/xstat.c @@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ statx_do_stat(int fd, const char *pathname, struct stat *statbuf, int flags) statx_copy(statbuf, &stxbuf); return 0; } + /* glibc emulation doesn't support AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC */ + if (errno == EINVAL) + errno = ENOSYS; if (errno == ENOSYS) statx_supported = 0; } else -- 2.24.0