Hi Ludo, > This was during the “removing unused link” phase, right? > Yes, that's it.
> The system is running CentOS 7: > > $ cat /etc/centos-release > CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core) > > What does “uname -r” return? 3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64 > Let me know how it goes! I compiled a C program with the following code using gcc-toolchain 9.2.0: #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <fcntl.h> int main(void) { struct statx st; if (statx(AT_FDCWD, "/", AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW | AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC, /* AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW, */ STATX_SIZE | STATX_NLINK, &st) == -1) printf ("failed: %m\n"); return 0; } Initially, with the AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC flag, the output is: $ failed: Invalid argument Then, without the AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC flag, the program runs and there is no output. Best regards, Paul.