[Bug 240158] utimensat system call (and C API) should allow more than 2 timestamps, to simplify changing birth time

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            Bug ID: 240158
           Summary: utimensat system call (and C API) should allow more
                    than 2 timestamps, to simplify changing birth time
           Product: Base System
           Version: 12.0-RELEASE
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Many People
          Priority: ---
         Component: kern
          Assignee: bugs at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: sean at rogue-research.com

The utimensat() man page says:

"To set both a birth time and a modification time, two calls are required; the
first to set the birth time and the second to set the (presumably newer)
modification time.  Ideally a new system call will be added that allows the
setting of all three times at once."

Such a newer system call would indeed simplify changing the birthtime of a
file, which currently is rather complicated to edit.

I can't find any existing bug for this, so thought I'd create one...

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