On 04/05/2011 09:23 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi LXC folks, > > from my bug report against udev, so that it doesn't try to start when > running in a non-root container: > > Marco d'Itri<m...@linux.it> (05/04/2011): >> On Apr 05, Cyril Brulebois<k...@debian.org> wrote: >> >>> from a quick glance, it looks like running udev in a linux >>> container isn't supported, so I guess it might make sense to use a >>> check similar to is_chrooted in its postinst to decide whether to >>> start the daemon. >> No objections, but please come back with a detection method which is >> sanctioned by the LXC people. > Could you please advise on the best way to detect running in a > non-root container? It looks like grepping /proc/1/cgroup for :/$ > could be a way to determine that (as opposed to :/foo$ in a "foo" > container). Can you please confirm?
I would not rely on that because lxc may evolve to not use the cgroup if not present. If you use upstart, you can check the 'container=lxc' env variable in the udev init script in order to know if you are in a container. Otherwise for sysvrc init, I don't know how to handle that. Thanks -- Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Lxc-devel mailing list Lxc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-devel
