# std.fs: Rework to always use statx\(\) instead of fstat\(\)/fstatat\(\) on Linux\. · gitcafe/zig

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Commit: 13945548fcd4fe3aab0879b670db1fe8131d8b0e

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Author: Alex Rønne Petersen

Committer: Alex Rønne Petersen

## Message

```
std.fs: Rework to always use statx() instead of fstat()/fstatat() on Linux.

statx() is strictly superior to stat() and friends. We can do this because the
standard library declares Linux 4.19 to be the minimum version supported in
std.Target. This is also necessary on riscv32 where there is only statx().

While here, I improved std.fs.File.metadata() to gather as much information as
possible when calling statx() since that is the expectation from this particular
API.

```

## Parents

- [4e5068c35cef5e1b3366aa05de60023b9fcd98e6](https://git.cafe/gitcafe/zig/commit/4e5068c35cef5e1b3366aa05de60023b9fcd98e6?format=markdown)

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