The Linux kernel exposes the birth time now for files through statx()
hence make use of it where available. We keep the xattr logic in place
for this however, since only a subset of file systems on Linux currently
expose the birth time. NFS and tmpfs for example do not support it. OTOH
there are other file systems that do support the birth time but might
not support xattrs (smb…), hence make the best of the two, in particular
in order to deal with journal files copied between file system types and
to maintain compatibility with older file systems that are updated to
newer version of the file system.
As described in the documentation:
When O_PATH is specified in flags, flag bits other than O_CLOEXEC,
O_DIRECTORY, and O_NOFOLLOW are ignored.
So, we can remove unnecessary flags in a case when O_PATH is passed
to the open() or openat().
