Fixes: #26588
For use cases like HPC, where `podman exec` is called in rapid succession, the standard exec process can become a bottleneck due to container locking and database I/O for session tracking.
This commit introduces a new `--no-session` flag to `podman exec`. When used, this flag invokes a new, lightweight backend implementation that:
- Skips container locking, reducing lock contention
- Bypasses the creation, tracking, and removal of exec sessions in the database
- Executes the command directly and retrieves the exit code without persisting session state
- Maintains consistency with regular exec for container lookup, TTY handling, and environment setup
- Shares implementation with health check execution to avoid code duplication
The implementation addresses all performance bottlenecks while preserving compatibility with existing exec functionality including --latest flag support and proper exit code handling.
Changes include:
- Add --no-session flag to cmd/podman/containers/exec.go
- Implement lightweight execution path in libpod/container_exec.go
- Ensure consistent container validation and environment setup
- Add comprehensive exit code testing including signal handling (exit 137)
- Optimize configuration to skip unnecessary exit command setup
Signed-off-by: Ryan McCann <ryan_mccann@student.uml.edu>
Signed-off-by: ryanmccann1024 <ryan_mccann@student.uml.edu>
This subdirectory contains option (flag) names and descriptions
common to multiple podman man pages. Each file is one option. The
filename does not necessarily need to be identical to the option
name: for instance, hostname.container.md and hostname.pod.md
exist because the --hostname option is sufficiently different
between podman-{create,run} and podman-pod-{create,run} to
warrant living separately.
How
The files here are included in podman-*.md.in files using the @@option
mechanism:
@@option foo ! includes options/foo.md
The tool that does this is hack/markdown-preprocess. It is a python
script because it needs to run on readthedocs.io. From a given .md.in
file, this script creates a .md file that can then be read by
go-md2man, sphinx, anything that groks markdown. This runs as
part of make docs.
Special Substitutions
Some options are almost identical except for 'pod' vs 'container'
differences. For those, use <<text for pods|text for containers>>.
Order is immaterial: the important thing is the presence of the
string "pod" in one half but not the other. The correct string
is chosen based on the filename: if the file contains -pod,
such as podman-pod-create, the string with pod (case-insensitive)
in it is chosen.
The string <<subcommand>> is replaced with the podman subcommand
as determined from the filename, e.g., create for podman-create.1.md.in.
This allows the shared use of examples in the option file:
Example: podman <<subcommand>> --foo --bar
As a special case, podman-pod-X becomes just X (the "pod" is removed).
This makes the pod-id-file man page more useful. To get the full
subcommand including 'pod', use <<fullsubcommand>>.
Restrictions
There is a restriction for having a single text line with three
back-ticks in the front and the end of the line. For instance:
```Some man page text```
This is currently not allowed and causes a corruption of the
compiled man page. Instead, put the three back-ticks on separate
lines like:
61cbc0c3ee