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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-12-12 17:26:31 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-12-12 17:30:25 +0100
commitb9ba4dabbab8a58a044ec42655e11e65bd3ecc47 (patch)
tree23a8f6590c33000cd350e1df99ddecccce22cbc8 /src/nspawn
parentc4e34a612c81266773cf8358cb38a43d2e43474e (diff)
nspawn: when booting in ephemeral mode, append random token to machine name
Also, when booting up an ephemeral container of / use the system hostname as default machine name. This way specifiyng -M is unnecessary when booting up an ephemeral container, while allowing any number of ephemeral containers to run from the same tree.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/nspawn')
-rw-r--r--src/nspawn/nspawn.c21
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/nspawn/nspawn.c b/src/nspawn/nspawn.c
index 651a45126b..9ca53cd1b4 100644
--- a/src/nspawn/nspawn.c
+++ b/src/nspawn/nspawn.c
@@ -2875,7 +2875,11 @@ static int determine_names(void) {
}
if (!arg_machine) {
- arg_machine = strdup(basename(arg_image ?: arg_directory));
+ if (arg_directory && path_equal(arg_directory, "/"))
+ arg_machine = gethostname_malloc();
+ else
+ arg_machine = strdup(basename(arg_image ?: arg_directory));
+
if (!arg_machine)
return log_oom();
@@ -2884,6 +2888,21 @@ static int determine_names(void) {
log_error("Failed to determine machine name automatically, please use -M.");
return -EINVAL;
}
+
+ if (arg_ephemeral) {
+ char *b;
+
+ /* Add a random suffix when this is an
+ * ephemeral machine, so that we can run many
+ * instances at once without manually having
+ * to specify -M each time. */
+
+ if (asprintf(&b, "%s-%016" PRIx64, arg_machine, random_u64()) < 0)
+ return log_oom();
+
+ free(arg_machine);
+ arg_machine = b;
+ }
}
return 0;