This patchset changes the /bin/stat program to use the statx() system call when available instead of stat()/lstat()/fstat(). This allows us to avoid fetching attributes that we don't intend to display. This can be a major improvement for some filesystems (particularly networked ones).
This also adds two new command-line options that allow it to control whether to synchronize with the backend server (again, mostly useful on network filesystems). Jeff Layton (4): stat: drop statbuf argument from out_epoch_sec() stat: use statx instead of stat if it's available stat: only set STATX_* mask bits for things we want to print stat: support statx DONT_SYNC and FORCE_SYNC flags NEWS | 8 + src/stat.c | 794 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 2 files changed, 561 insertions(+), 241 deletions(-) -- 2.20.1
