Hi Martin On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Martin Pitt <mp...@debian.org> wrote: > Hey Josh, Lucas, > > Lucas De Marchi [2016-01-11 10:43 -0200]: >> On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote: >> > This allows tools to detect the file as empty, such as via systemd's >> > ConditionFileNotEmpty. > > As pointed out on https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/2301: Why > does this file get created at all if it's going to be empty?
The only reason I can think of is to avoid breaking current programs that depend on its existence since it is created since forever. Lucas De Marchi