Re: Failed to execute /init (error -2) for system-wide musl libc

["piranna@gmail.com" <piranna@gmail.com>]

> Glad you figured it out.

Thank you! :-)


> This is one of the arcane details of cpio:
> as originally designed, every input that you specify corresponds to
> exactly one record, and every record creates at most one file/directory.
> The Linux kernel follows this approach; if you create /lib/file but not
> /lib in your initrd, the non-existence of /lib will result in /lib/file
> not being created.

Yeah, it's a simple algorythm, but if you de-compress the generated
.cpio.gz file the /lib/file are already there, so it doesn't make
sense. I've opened an issue on Linux bugtracker so gen_init_cpio
command exit with an error if trying to add a file on a directory that
doesn't exists:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90561


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