Quoting Christian Brauner (christianvanbrau...@gmail.com):
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 06:08:30PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > When using lxc-start-ephemeral with a command that is supposed to be run in
> > the
> > container:
> >
> > lxc-start-ephemeral -o aa /bin/sh
> >
> > What is the expected behaviour:
> >
> > 1) Start the container with its normal init process and then run the
> >command in the container?
> > 2) Start the container with just the command running in the
> > container
> >i.e. similar to lxc-start -n aa -F /bin/sh?
Oh, when I first saw this I thought you were asking about lxc-start vs
lxc-execute, not fg vs bg.
> > I cannot test this since lxc-start-ephemeral does not work (don't know why
> > yet)
> > on my system. I need to know to think of strategies how to implement this
> > in C.
> > Option 1) seems kind of hard and I don't know how to smoothly implement
> > this.
> >
> > Christian
>
> The best option seems to be to daemonize the container using
>
> c->want_daemonize(c, true);
>
> starting it
>
> c->start(c, 0, NULL);
>
> then calling
>
> c->attach_run_wait(c, /* and so on */);
>
> to run the command in the container.
Right, since we're making 'ephemeral' a direct property of the container, we
can distinguish the same way as we do for regular containers. For both fg/bg
and use_init=0/1.
-serge
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