On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 06:10:48PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
We have four generations of stat() syscalls:
- the oldstat syscalls that are only used on the older architectures
- the newstat family that is used on all 64-bit architectures but lacked support for large files on 32-bit architectures.
- the stat64 family that is used mostly on 32-bit architectures to replace newstat
- statx() to replace all of the above, adding 64-bit timestamps among other things.
We already compile stat64 only on those architectures that need it, but newstat is always built, including on those that don't reference it. This adds a new __ARCH_WANT_NEW_STAT symbol along the lines of __ARCH_WANT_OLD_STAT and __ARCH_WANT_STAT64 to control compilation of newstat. All architectures that need it use an explict define, the others now get a little bit smaller, and future architecture (including 64-bit targets) won't ever see it.
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven geert@linux-m68k.org Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de
Do I read this right that you only want to provide statx by default? It is a little different from the traditional stat calls, so I'd like to know this is actually ok from libc folks first.