[bug #65792] Improve support for file birth time

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #65792 (group findutils):


[comment #2 comment #2:]
> That already exists
(https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/lib/stat-time.h#n156) and
we're using it, as detailed in the first comment on this bug.  But there are
limitations in NetBSD's implementation which can give rise to incorrect
results.   See the link above for details.

Apologies, I probably explained it poorly. I'm aware of the stat-time module
and the BSD bug.

I was proposing an extended stat function in Gnulib that accepts an extra
'struct timespec *' argument.

That way any OS-specific details could be contained there, i.e. populating
'struct stat' from 'struct statx' on Linux.

The extra argument would contain the file creation time if supported by the
OS/file-system. Or else it's values will be set to -1 like
get_stat_birthtime().



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