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charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.51 / 50.00]; BAYES_HAM(-3.00)[99.99%]; MID_CONTAINS_FROM(1.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[suse.de:s=susede2_rsa,suse.de:s=susede2_ed25519]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.20)[-1.000]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[]; MISSING_XM_UA(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[gmail.com]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_TWELVE(0.00)[13]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; FUZZY_RATELIMITED(0.00)[rspamd.com]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_ENVRCPT(0.00)[gmail.com]; DKIM_SIGNED(0.00)[suse.de:s=susede2_rsa,suse.de:s=susede2_ed25519]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; DBL_BLOCKED_OPENRESOLVER(0.00)[suse.de:dkim,suse.de:mid]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[suse.de:+] X-Rspamd-Action: no action X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -3.51 X-Spam-Level: X-Rspamd-Server: rspamd1.dmz-prg2.suse.org X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 8DFB75BCEC On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:03:12 +0000, Askar Safin wrote: > Binaries linked with bionic libc require /dev/null to be present, > otherwise they will crash before entering "main", as explained > in https://landley.net/toybox/faq.html#cross3 . It looks as though Bionic has extra logic to handle missing /dev/null during early boot, although it's dependent on !is_AT_SECURE: https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/main/+/main:bionic/libc/bionic/libc_init_common.cpp;drc=a7637a8f06f103c53d61a400a6b66f48f2da32be;l=400 I think this would be better addressed via documentation (e.g. in Bionic or ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.rst). Thanks, David