[lxc-devel] [PATCH 3/9] lxc_start: ERROR if container is already running.

Serge Hallyn serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com
Tue Oct 21 14:54:34 UTC 2014


Quoting Tycho Andersen (tycho.andersen at canonical.com):
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 02:29:28PM +0000, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> > Quoting Tycho Andersen (tycho.andersen at canonical.com):
> > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:16:54AM +0800, Dongsheng Yang wrote:
> > > > We should exit with a error when starting a running container.
> > > 
> > > Is this intentional? I just noticed it when pulling from master that
> > > it breaks some of my scripts. Are we sure it doesn't break anything
> > > else?
> > 
> > Which scripts does it break?
> 
> No public ones, just some that I wrote myself. Just curious if the
> behavior change was intentional or not (I prefer the previous behavior
> :)

What exactly is the change?  Did it used to return true instead of
false?  The intent was simply to shortcut a bunch of extra work in
the case where the container was already running.

-serge


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