[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] busybox: Use UTMPX instead of legacy UTMP

[Bernhard Reutner-Fischer]

On 3 September 2015 at 18:54, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> This makes busybox honor UTMPX feature if available in a libc
>
> [YOCTO #8243]
>
> Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
> ---
>  .../busybox/0001-Switch-to-POSIX-utmpx-API.patch   | 388 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox_1.23.2.bb        |   1 +
>  2 files changed, 389 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/0001-Switch-to-POSIX-utmpx-API.patch
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/0001-Switch-to-POSIX-utmpx-API.patch b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/0001-Switch-to-POSIX-utmpx-API.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..1d299ee
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox/0001-Switch-to-POSIX-utmpx-API.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,388 @@
> +From 86a7f18f211af1abda5c855d2674b0fcb53de524 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> +From: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop at gmail.com>
> +Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 23:03:46 +0200
> +Subject: [PATCH] *: Switch to POSIX utmpx API
> +
> +UTMP is SVID legacy, UTMPX is mandated by POSIX.
> +
> +Glibc and uClibc have identical layout of UTMP and UTMPX, both of these
> +libc treat _PATH_UTMPX as _PATH_UTMP so from a user-perspective nothing
> +changes except the names of the API entrypoints.


Ontop of this you might also need
http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=7d86384b246434e72533332f7f409a7aa9efeacb
unless you can guarantee a uClibc rebuild with utmpx support enabled
at the same time.

Thanks and cheers,