[Lxc-users] errors

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Tamas Papp (tompos at martos.bme.hu):
> On 05/23/2013 09:47 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> >The lxc lock had nothing to do with the segfaulting - and no, the new
> >hanges will simply swap out use of named semaphore for a flock on an
> >open fd (so that they get auto-cleaned if process is killed).  Any
> >potential for segvs *should* be found while I test.
> 
> OK
> 
> >>I'm just interested, wheter it's safe to upgrade to the latest
> >>version in the next few days. Unfortunately there is only daily ppa
> >>for 0.9 tree.
> >raring and saucy are based on 0.9.
> >
> >For the most part the daily ppa is actually very stable.  It goes
> >through quite a bit of automated testing before it gets published.
> >It's what I use on my main dev box, though when I"m working on something
> >that takes a few days, I sometimes end up a few days behind while I
> >test my feature.
> 
> Yes, I know and I use it in production on a couple of servers.
> 
> 
> Thanks to you!
> 
> >I think this is the second time a bug has been exposed mainly through
> >lxc-list (because it uses quite a bit of the api), so lxc-list should
> >be added explicitly to the testsuite.
> 
> You mean lxc-ls?
> 
> BTW, lxc-list:
> 
> # lxc-list
> WARNING: lxc-list is deprecated, please use lxc-ls --fancy.
>          This symlink will be dropped in LXC 1.0.
> 
> NAME     STATE    IPV4        IPV6  AUTOSTART
> ---------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> I use this alias as  an lxc-ls --fancy:
> 
> alias lxc-list='lxc-ls --fancy --fancy-format name,state,ipv4,autostart'
> 
> 
> Whould it not be better if lxc-list would be left as it is now, or

Yeah, I'm hoping to convince Stéphane to leave lxc-list after all :)
Even if it is just shipped as a symlink, with lxc-ls deciding how to
behave based on argv[0].

> even it's behaviour would be defined in /etc/lxc or
> /etc/default/lxc.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> LXC_LIST_SWITCHES="--fancy --fancy-format name,state,ipv4,autostart"
> 
> Just a stupid idea.

Hm, yeah.  If there are other common long options that people like to
use (I don't use any others) then this would be worthwhile.

-serge