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Re: [PATCH] <sys/stat.h>: Use Linux kernel UAPI header if available and useful


On Jun 11 2019, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:

> Ideally, we would still write a test that the duplicate and the kernel
> version match, and that is kind of hard.

If that's ever an issue, it's a kernel issue, not a glibc issue.  The
point of the statx interface is that it stays compatible without any
need for versioning.

Andreas.

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