[Bug 1020179] [NEW] Add a timeout option to lxc-wait

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

Public bug reported:

Current implementation of lxc-wait wait forever until the container reach a states passed in argument.
If for some reason the container hangs (in my case it was blocking while trying to bind mount a device) lxc-wait never exit the wait loop.

It'd be nice to have a timeout option and exit with a non-zero exit status if it reaches the timeout, something like:
lx-wait -d DURATION -n NAME -s STATE

It's a wishlist item, timeout from coreutils can be used for this
purpose.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: lxc 0.8.0~rc1-4ubuntu17
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-2.2-generic 3.5.0-rc4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-2-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.2.5-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jul  2 18:05:24 2012
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lxc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-01-31 (152 days ago)

** Affects: lxc (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apparmor apport-bug quantal running-unity uec-images

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