Re: [PATCH 2/2] vfs: support statx(..., NULL, AT_EMPTY_PATH, ...)

[Xi Ruoyao]

On Thu, 2024-07-04 at 07:55 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Xi Ruoyao:
> 
> > Also some bad news: Glibc has this:
> > 
> > #if (__WORDSIZE == 32 \
> >      && (!defined __SYSCALL_WORDSIZE || __SYSCALL_WORDSIZE == 32)) \
> >     || defined STAT_HAS_TIME32 \
> >     || (!defined __NR_newfstatat && !defined __NR_fstatat64)
> > # define FSTATAT_USE_STATX 1
> > #else
> > # define FSTATAT_USE_STATX 0
> > #endif
> 
> These __NR_* constants come from the glibc headers, not the kernel
> headers.  In other words, the result of the preprocessor condition does
> not depend on the kernel header version.

Yes, I realized it in https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2024-
July/157975.html and 2.40 should be fine.  But the __NR_* constants will
be there once we run update-syscall-lists.py, so we still need to handle
the issue in the Glibc 2.41 dev cycle.


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