On 2020-08-19 2:50 a.m., Khem Raj wrote:
On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 11:14 PM Lachlan Archibald
<[email protected]> wrote:

/var/empty is commonly used as the home directory for system users that do not
have any other dedicated directory.


There is no "standard" empty directory specified in FHS so we need to
justify why we should always create this directory
which dameons need it or other applications that depend on /var/empty


Lachlan,

Can you resubmit listing the daemons that use /var/empty in
the commit log?

../Randy


Signed-off-by: Lachlan Archibald <[email protected]>
---
  meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb 
b/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
index 94299431f6..ff706637fa 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files_3.0.14.bb
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ dirs755 = "/boot /dev ${base_bindir} ${base_sbindir} 
${base_libdir} \
             ${libdir} ${sbindir} ${datadir} \
             ${datadir}/common-licenses ${datadir}/dict ${infodir} \
             ${mandir} ${datadir}/misc ${localstatedir} \
-           ${localstatedir}/backups ${localstatedir}/lib \
+           ${localstatedir}/backups ${localstatedir}/empty 
${localstatedir}/lib \
             ${localstatedir}/lib/misc ${localstatedir}/spool \
             ${localstatedir}/volatile \
             ${localstatedir}/${@'volatile/' if 
oe.types.boolean('${VOLATILE_LOG_DIR}') else ''}log \
--
2.26.2






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# Randy MacLeod
# Wind River Linux
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