Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available

[David Howells]

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Do we actually need the fxstat variant? IIRC, some *at syscalls just
> operate on dfd when filename==NULL, which would be trivial to do here.

user_path_at() doesn't seem to work like that, so fstatat() doesn't.  It's a
possibility though.

David
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