[CRIU] lxc /dev

Pavel Emelyanov xemul at parallels.com
Mon Aug 4 08:08:30 PDT 2014


On 08/04/2014 06:20 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> http://criu.org/LXC says that lxc has a "BUG" in how it sets up its /dev.
> My question is, what "BUG" is this referring to?  At some point in the
> past, for a very brief time, lxc did in fact mount a devtmpfs in the
> container, which is very clearly a bug.  If that is what this is referring
> to, and the note is just out of date, then that's great.

I believe it was the devtmpfs issue. We noticed that everybody connecting
to /dev/log socket got connected to the same host-side daemon. IIRC the
investigation lead us to the /dev being shared filesystem with /dev/log
being also shared between containers :)

> If this is referring to something else, then what exactly is the bug, so
> we can fix it? :)  (or, if we disagree about it being a bug, discuss how
> to mitigate it)
> 
> -serge
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