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Kir Kolyshkin 3cdda464fa Move poststart hook from runc create to runc start
The runtime-spec [1] currently says:

> 6. Runtime's start command is invoked with the unique identifier of
>    the container.
> 7. The startContainer hooks MUST be invoked by the runtime. If any
>    startContainer hook fails, the runtime MUST generate an error, stop
>    the container, and continue the lifecycle at step 12.
> 8. The runtime MUST run the user-specified program, as specified by
>    process.
> 9. The poststart hooks MUST be invoked by the runtime. If any
>    poststart hook fails, the runtime MUST generate an error, stop the
>    container, and continue the lifecycle at step 12.
> ...
> 11. Runtime's delete command is invoked with the unique identifier of
>     the container.
> 12. The container MUST be destroyed by undoing the steps performed
>     during create phase (step 2).
> 13. The poststop hooks MUST be invoked by the runtime. If any poststop
>     hook fails, the runtime MUST log a warning, but the remaining hooks
>     and lifecycle continue as if the hook had succeeded.

Currently, we do 9 before 8 (heck, even before 6), which is clearly
against the spec and results in issues like the one described in [2].

Let's move running poststart hook to after the user-specified process
has started.

NOTE this patch only fixes the order and does not implement removing
the container when the poststart hook failed (as this part of the spec
is controversial -- destroy et al and should probably be, and currently
are, part of "runc delete").

[1]: https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/blob/main/runtime.md#lifecycle
[2]: https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/5182

Reported-by: ningmingxiao <ning.mingxiao@zte.com.cn>
Reported-by: Erik Sjölund <erik.sjolund@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kir Kolyshkin <kolyshkin@gmail.com>
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runc Integration Tests

Integration tests provide end-to-end testing of runc.

Note that integration tests do not replace unit tests.

As a rule of thumb, code should be tested thoroughly with unit tests. Integration tests on the other hand are meant to test a specific feature end to end.

Integration tests are written in bash using the bats (Bash Automated Testing System) framework. Please see bats documentation for more details.

Running integration tests

The easiest way to run integration tests is with Docker:

make integration

Alternatively, you can run integration tests directly on your host through make:

sudo make localintegration

Or you can just run them directly using bats

sudo bats tests/integration

To run a single test bucket:

make integration TESTPATH="/checkpoint.bats"

To run them on your host, you need to set up a development environment plus bats (Bash Automated Testing System).

For example:

cd ~/go/src/github.com
git clone https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core.git
cd bats-core
./install.sh /usr/local

Writing integration tests

Helper functions are provided in order to facilitate writing tests.

Please see existing tests for examples.