Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] wrote:

I'm trying to understand what that means for the 64-bit time_t syscalls.

The patch series I did last year had a replacement 'sys_newfstatat()'
syscall but IIRC no other stat variant, the idea being that we would
only need to provide this one to the libc and have user space emulate
the stat/fstat/lstat/fstatat variants based on that.
With the statx introduction, I was hoping to no longer have to add
that syscall but instead have libc do everything on top of sys_statx().

Do you think that is reasonable, given that we won't be allowed to
call any of the existing stat() variants for a y2038-safe libc build[1],
or should we plan to keep needing replacement fstatat (and possibly
stat/lstat/fstat) syscalls with 64-bit time_t even after statx() support
is merged into the kernel.

Christoph?