Support for statx instead of stat in order to add support for creation time for the files and folder

[s1-ranjan]

A few days back I created a thread at linuxmint/nemo#2342, with a hope to able to get support for the creation timestamp for the file and folder but, I received a reply which point the issues is been related to the bindfs, so I request to the community to add support for the btime instead of stat which will help to add support for the creation time for the files and folder in the Linux system for the mounted folders or filesystem.

[mpartel]

I'm sorry to say this is not currently possible.

1. As far as I can tell, FUSE doesn't support statx, so bindfs has no way to return btime to the system.
2. Even if support is added to FUSE, it will probably be added to version 3, while bindfs is on version 2. Porting bindfs to FUSE 3 is a large task that I, unfortunately, don't have time for in the foreseeable future. This is now done.

I don't think FUSE will add statx unless someone contributes that support. When I went to create an issue in https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse the template said:

libfuse does not have any active, regular contributors or developers. The current maintainer continues to apply pull requests and tries to make regular releases, but unfortunately has no capacity to do any development beyond addressing high-impact issues.

I'm in a similar situation with bindfs, sadly.