Re: [PATCH 0/2] statx NULL path support

[Xi Ruoyao]

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...)

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Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xxxxxxxxxxx>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University