main: explain our /etc empty check a bit in a comment

(cherry picked from commit 3408ba015a)
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Lennart Poettering
2014-07-19 13:19:27 -04:00
committed by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
parent a71b7b7e52
commit a821499e67
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@@ -1543,6 +1543,14 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
if (in_initrd())
log_info("Running in initial RAM disk.");
/* Let's check whether /etc is already populated. We
* don't actually really check for that, but use
* /etc/machine-id as flag file. This allows container
* managers and installers to provision a couple of
* files already. If the container manager wants to
* provision the machine ID itself it should pass
* $container_uuid to PID 1.*/
empty_etc = access("/etc/machine-id", F_OK) < 0;
if (empty_etc)
log_info("Running with unpopulated /etc.");