Re: [PATCH 0/6] Extended file stat system call

Paul Eggert [off-list ref] wrote:

On 04/19/2012 09:32 AM, Roland McGrath wrote:

quoted

I have no comment on the functionality.  But "xstat" is probably a poor
choice of name. 

In AIX 7.1 the (similar) function is called statxat instead of xstat.
The API isn't exactly the same, but it's the same basic idea.
Might be worth looking at, not merely to see whether the API
should be the same, but also to borrow good ideas even if not.

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v7r1/topic/com.ibm.aix.basetechref/doc/basetrf2/statx.htm

Interesting.  I wasn't intending to provide both statx() and statxat()
variants, just the latter, in which case I'd've though that -at suffix is
redundant.

I note that they split their time fields into separate seconds and ns fields,
presumably for better packing.

David