Merge pull request #501 from ZJU-SEL/nsinit_readme_add

Add documentation for nsinit
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Mrunal Patel 2015-04-08 11:24:36 -07:00
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You may also specify an alternate root directory from where the `container.json` You may also specify an alternate root directory from where the `container.json`
file is read and where the `state.json` file will be saved. file is read and where the `state.json` file will be saved.
### How to use?
Currently nsinit has 9 commands. Type `nsinit -h` to list all of them.
And for every alternative command, you can also use `--help` to get more
detailed help documents. For example, `nsinit config --help`.
`nsinit` cli application is implemented using [cli.go](https://github.com/codegangsta/cli).
Lots of details are handled in cli.go, so the implementation of `nsinit` itself
is very clean and clear.
* **config**
It will generate a standard configuration file for a container. By default, it
will generate as the template file in [config.go](https://github.com/docker/libcontainer/blob/master/nsinit/config.go#L192).
It will modify the template if you have specified some configuration by options.
* **exec**
Starts a container and execute a new command inside it. Besides common options, it
has some special options as below.
- `--tty,-t`: allocate a TTY to the container.
- `--config`: you can specify a configuration file. By default, it will use
template configuration.
- `--id`: specify the ID for a container. By default, the id is "nsinit".
- `--user,-u`: set the user, uid, and/or gid for the process. By default the
value is "root".
- `--cwd`: set the current working dir.
- `--env`: set environment variables for the process.
* **init**
It's an internal command that is called inside the container's namespaces to
initialize the namespace and exec the user's process. It should not be called
externally.
* **oom**
Display oom notifications for a container, you should specify container id.
* **pause**
Pause the container's processes, you should specify container id. It will use
cgroup freeze subsystem to help.
* **unpause**
Unpause the container's processes. Same with `pause`.
* **stats**
Display statistics for the container, it will mainly show cgroup and network
statistics.
* **state**
Get the container's current state. You can also read the state from `state.json`
in your container_id folder.
* **help, h**
Shows a list of commands or help for one command.