birthtime initialization

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20080722075718.GA1881 at a91-153-120-204.elisa-laajakaista.fi>, Jaakko
 Heinonen writes:
>On 2008-06-02, Bruce Evans wrote:
>[about patch for ext2fs in PR kern/122047]
>>  % +	vap->va_birthtime.tv_sec = 0;
>>  % +	vap->va_birthtime.tv_nsec = 0;
>>  
>>  This is unrelated and should be handled centrally.  Almost all file
>>  systems get this wrong.  Most fail to set va_birthtime, so stat()
>>  returns kernel stack garbage for st_birthtime.  ffs1 does the same
>>  as the above.  msdosfs does the above correctly, by setting tv_sec to
>>  (time_t)-1 in unsupported cases.
>
>How about this patch?

Looks like something Kirk forgot to me.

We want to macroize the NOVAL for timespec instead of spreading
-1 casts all over.

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