From 36c3a0fac28dd65ef91ac8604abdc10f5fd0bdba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Wilde <lukew@serenityos.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 21:36:36 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Meta: Make utmp start out as an empty object instead of empty
 string

The reason empty string was treated as JSON null was to paper over an
issue where UTMP would start out as the empty string and presumably
cause errors when trying to parse it as JSON. This was added in
commit a409b832.

This changes that by making UTMP start out as an empty JSON object
instead of the empty string.
---
 Meta/build-root-filesystem.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Meta/build-root-filesystem.sh b/Meta/build-root-filesystem.sh
index f03dd97fdaf..851d7ae72e8 100755
--- a/Meta/build-root-filesystem.sh
+++ b/Meta/build-root-filesystem.sh
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ chmod 1777 mnt/tmp
 echo "done"
 
 printf "creating utmp file... "
-touch mnt/var/run/utmp
+echo "{}" > mnt/var/run/utmp
 chown 0:$utmp_gid mnt/var/run/utmp
 chmod 664 mnt/var/run/utmp
 echo "done"