When running application containers with lxc-execute, /dev is
populated only with device entries. Since /dev is a tmpfs mount in
the container environment, the /dev/shm folder not being present is not
a sufficient reason for the /dev/shm mount to fail.
Create the /dev/shm directory if not present.
Signed-off-by: Bogdan Purcareata <bogdan.purcare...@nxp.com>
---
src/lxc/initutils.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/lxc/initutils.c b/src/lxc/initutils.c
index 45df60f..8d9016c 100644
--- a/src/lxc/initutils.c
+++ b/src/lxc/initutils.c
@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ extern void lxc_setup_fs(void)
if (mount_fs("proc", "/proc", "proc"))
INFO("failed to remount proc");
+ /* if /dev has been populated by us, /dev/shm does not exist */
+ if (access("/dev/shm", F_OK) && mkdir("/dev/shm", 0777))
+ INFO("failed to create /dev/shm");
+
/* if we can't mount /dev/shm, continue anyway */
if (mount_fs("shmfs", "/dev/shm", "tmpfs"))
INFO("failed to mount /dev/shm");
--
2.1.4
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