Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 81/87] linux-user: Add support for statx() syscall for all platforms

[Timothy Baldwin]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2018, at 10:45 AM, Aleksandar Markovic wrote:

> > As such an implementation of lstat that uses statx will be broken.
> > 
> > Since fstatat exists since 2.6.16 this can be reduced to a call to fstatat.
> 
> I am not sure what you meant here. I think QEMU lstat() implementation 
> does not use statx(). This implementation of statx() uses hosts's 
> statx(), and, as a fallback, host's fstat(), stat(), and fstatat().

I was referring to an  implementation of lstat in a C library that is running 
on QEMU linux user.

> 
> I would like to add that I think this patch should be submitted 
> separately, out of this series.
> 
> Yours,
> Aleksandar
>