[pkg-lxc-devel] Bug#875733: Bug#875733: lxc.mount.auto = cgroup:mixed doesn't seem to work in Stretch anymore

Sun Sep 17 09:30:54 UTC 2017

On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 10:40:27AM +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> TL;DR: I can reproduce the "does not create cgroups" behaviour, but I
> don't know why yet.
> 
> Either way, you are right, the cgroups are missing in Stretch, and I don't yet understand why.

This happens because cgfsng_mount() is a NOOP when cgroup namespaces are
supported [4].

This seems intentional, but I don't know who is suposed to used the
namespaced cgroups then.

[4] https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/master/src/lxc/cgroups/cgfsng.c#L1627-L1628