[lxc-devel] [PATCH 1/2] change lxc-autostart shutdown to behave like lxc-stop

[Dwight Engen]

It is desirable to have a mode where a soft shutdown is requested,
but then do a hard shutdown if after some time period the container
has not shut down. This the default behaviour of lxc-stop, but is
not currently possible with lxc-autostart. This change makes this
the default behaviour when shutdown is specified to lxc-autostart.
This will be very useful for init scripts.

An indefinte wait for soft shutdown (though I'm not sure how that
would be useful) is still possible by passing a timeout of 0.

Change default timeout value to 60 seconds to match lxc-stop

Signed-off-by: Dwight Engen <dwight.engen at oracle.com>
---
 doc/lxc-autostart.sgml.in | 7 +++++--
 src/lxc/lxc_autostart.c   | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/lxc-autostart.sgml.in b/doc/lxc-autostart.sgml.in
index 2f132ad..99ee7fa 100644
--- a/doc/lxc-autostart.sgml.in
+++ b/doc/lxc-autostart.sgml.in
@@ -103,8 +103,11 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
                 </term>
                 <listitem>
                     <para>
-                        Only request a clean shutdown, do not kill the
-                        container tasks if the clean shutdown fails.
+                        Request a clean shutdown. If a
+                        <optional>-t timeout</optional> greater than 0 is
+                        given and the container has not shut down within
+                        this period, it will be killed as with the
+                        <optional>-k kill</optional> option.
                     </para>
                 </listitem>
             </varlistentry>
diff --git a/src/lxc/lxc_autostart.c b/src/lxc/lxc_autostart.c
index 1407a41..62e101b 100644
--- a/src/lxc/lxc_autostart.c
+++ b/src/lxc/lxc_autostart.c
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Options:\n\
 	.options  = my_longopts,
 	.parser   = my_parser,
 	.checker  = NULL,
-	.timeout = 30,
+	.timeout = 60,
 };
 
 int lists_contain_common_entry(struct lxc_list *p1, struct lxc_list *p2) {
@@ -273,7 +273,6 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 				if (my_args.list)
 					printf("%s\n", c->name);
 				else {
-					my_args.timeout = 0;
 					if (!c->shutdown(c, my_args.timeout))
 						fprintf(stderr, "Error shutting down container: %s\n", c->name);
 				}
-- 
1.8.3.1