glibc has statx support in 18.10, but the manpage claims otherwise

Bug #1804185 reported by Murukesh Mohanan
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Bug Description

Glibc added statx support in 2.28 [1], the same version used in 18.10. But `man 2 statx` still has:

> NOTES
> Glibc does not (yet) provide a wrapper for the statx() system call; call it using
> syscall(2).

I have tested it, and I can directly use `statx(2)` in 18.10. This note should be removed.

[1]: https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-08/msg00003.html

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Michael Kerrisk (mtk-manpages) wrote :

Upstream maintainer here. Yes, the currently released upstream manual page is out of date. But this is rectified already for the next upstream release.

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Murukesh Mohanan (murukesh) wrote :

I see, thanks! Since http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/statx.2.html has the same note, I though t it might have slipped past unnoticed. Thanks again!

Changed in manpages (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Committed
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