Hi, I had already opened https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/8501

On November 30, 2020 3:31:45 PM GMT+01:00, Matt Heon <mheon@redhat.com> wrote:
On 2020-11-30 11:19, Valentin Rothberg wrote:
Hi Hendrik,

Thanks for reaching out!

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 11:38 PM Hendrik Haddorp <hendrik.haddorp@gmx.net>
wrote:

Hi,

I'm using podman 2.1.1 and noticed an odd behavior of podman. I created
a test image that takes several minutes to stop when the container got
signaled to stop. So when I call podman stop with a long timeout the
call hangs a few minutes until the container stops. When I use a second
terminal while the podman stop call is wating for the container to stop
some podman calls hang as well. For example a podman inspect on the same
container or a simple podman ps hangs. If I use ctrl-c to kill the
earlier podman stop call then those hanging commands continue straight
away. Are things supposed to behave that way?


Yes, that's expected behaviour. The container is locked while it's being
stopped. The lock blocks other commands from using the container.

I am optimistic that we can improve the locking and introduce an
intermediate state between "running" and "stopped" and unlock the
container. I am pulling Matt Heon who likely has the best understanding
how we can achieve it.

Matt, what do you think?


The reason for the lock is to ensure that no other operations on the
container can happen at the same time - we don't want a user to be
able to, say, checkpoint a container that is already in the process of
being stopped. We could probably work around this with an intermediate
Stopping state, as Valentin said, which would not allow any API calls
against the container except for basic status queries.

It shouldn't be that bad to add the extra state, but it could be a bit
of work to ensure that it only allows the right set of calls. Would
you mind opening an RFE on our Github to track this?

Thanks,
Matt Heon

Kind regards,
Valentin


regards,
Hendrik
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