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Author: aitor
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To: svante.signell, Devuan dng ml
Subject: Re: [DNG] Help needed:[Fwd: eudev: Methods to detect if running in a container.]


En 19 de febrero de 2020 18:42:34 aitor <aitor_czr@???> escribió:

> Hi again,
>
> En 19 de febrero de 2020 17:11:28 aitor <aitor_czr@???> escribió:
>
>> Hi Svante,
>>
>> En 19 de febrero de 2020 16:16:39 Svante Signell via Dng
>> <dng@???> escribió:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> No replies so far from the devuan-dev list. Maybe with a larger audience I can
>>> get some help!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
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>>> eudev: Methods to detect if running in a container.
>>> De: Svante Signell svante.signell@???
>>> Fecha: 18 feb., 12:24
>>> Para: devuan-dev devuan-dev@???
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm trying to solve the problem of detecting if you are within a container,
>>> like
>>> docker or LXC when running the eudev init script. If true udevd should not be
>>> cstarted. The current version of eudev (3.2.9-4) has a buggy check for
>>> containers, and people running runit as init have problems, see #392.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> eudev-3.2.7-6 has the following test:
>>> if ! ps --no-headers --format args ax | egrep -q '^\['; then
>>> log_warning_msg "udev does not support containers, not started"
>>> exit 0
>>> fi
>>> I don't know the origin of this test and have not found anything about the
>>> output within a container.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> udev-244-3 has the following test:
>>> if [ ! -w /sys ]; then
>>> log_warning_msg "udev does not support containers, not started"
>>> exit 0
>>> fi
>>> This test is buggy since /sys is a directory not a file and /sys is always
>>> writable when running. Any command triggers this test:
>>> /etc/init.d/udev status
>>> udev does not support containers, not started ... (warning).
>>>
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>>>
>>> Googling around the following tests shows:
>>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20010199/how-to-determine-if-a-process-runs-inside-lxc-docker
>>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23513045/how-to-check-if-a-process-is-running-inside-docker-container
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_(software)
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>>>
>>> 1) cat /proc/1/sched | head -n 1
>>> # Container: bash (5276, #threads: 1)
>>> # No container: init (1, #threads: 1)
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>>>
>>> 2) grep 'docker\|lxc' /proc/1/cgroup
>>> Note 1: On a beowulf image it is empty??
>>> Note 2: On a systemd-free Debian/bullseye image it shows
>>> 1:name=elogind:/1
>>> 0::/
>>> Note 3: On a systemd-free Debian/buster image:
>>> <same as above> after removing systemd-shim and cgmanager
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 3) cat /proc/1/environ | tr '\0' '\n' | grep ^container
>>>
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>>>
>>> Any help on this subject is appreciated, especially the output of the above
>>> tests when running in a container.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>
>> The short answer from my mobile: maybe i can help you later at home,
>> because i remember some similar issue related with the chroot jail of the
>> live-sdk (another type of container after all) and the dev-assistant of the
>> vdev packaging.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Aitor.
>>
>>
>>
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> Now i can remember the issue: some script in the vdev.install file trying
> to detect if dev-assisntant is running or not, the "ps" throws an empty
> output even being it running.


Within the jail, that goes without saying, a sort of container as i said.



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