[lxc-devel] liblxc, lxc-browse()

[Francois-Xavier Bourlet]

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here's my answer:

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Francois-Xavier Bourlet
<francois-xavier.bourlet at dotcloud.com> wrote:
> Yes I confirm what Gregory said. The purpose is to run some user code
> for each container (based on the name of it) for who link to the LXC
> library.
>
> I am actually working on a library to provide statistics about LXC
> containers, and I need an "C" way to browse containers. To keep the
> code manageable I would prefer to move the logic of the browse itself
> into liblxc. So every future modification of LibLXC would be
> transparent for every application browsing containers.
>
> Using an hard path is not acceptable and using a lxc_getpath() way is
> not so much better.
>
> If you have any other idea feel free to express it, I am open to any suggestion.
>
> Thanks
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Greg Kurz <gkurz at fr.ibm.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 10:00 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
>>> On 04/13/2011 12:49 PM, Francois-Xavier Bourlet wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > Here's a patch with the purpose adding a way to browse containers trough liblxc.
>>>
>>> What does "browse" mean in this context?
>>>
>>
>> By reading the code, "browse" seems to mean "run some user code with a
>> user provided context for each container".
>>
>>> > I added the function lxc-browse, that simply call back a function with
>>> > the container name as parameter.
>>>
>>> So, get a list of the containers?  Like lxc-ls?
>>>
>>> > It help to abstract how to browse containers without needed to know
>>> > the underlaying structure of LXC.
>>>
>>> for i in $(lxc-ls); do lxc-info -n $i; done
>>>
>>> I don't understand the purpose of this patch.
>>>
>>
>> I guess this patch offers a for-each-container feature for users that
>> link directly into liblxc rather than using lxc commands.
>>
>> Francois-Xavier, do you confirm ?
>>
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> --
> François-Xavier Bourlet
>



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