remove support for AutoRemove (--rm) on API < 1.30#6525
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Support for daemon-side auto-remove was added in API v1.25; on older versions of the daemon, the client was responsible for removing the container after it exited (see [moby@6dd8e10]) On API versions < 1.30, it used the events API for this purpose, and would wait for a "die", "detach" or "detroy" events to know the container exited, and could be removed or (when attached, but without a TTY) to get the container's exit-status. (see [cli@38591f2]). API version 1.24 (docker 1.12) is 9 Years old (July 29, 2016), and API 1.30 (docker 17.06) is 8 Years old (Jun 20, 2017), and long EOL. While technically, a CLI could negotiate API 1.30 or older, this would only be in cases where either API version negotiation failed, or the version was explicitly overridden through `DOCKER_API_VERSION` for testing. Either of those cases would be rare, and not worth the technical complexity to support. This patch removes support for AutoRemove on API < 1.30. [moby@6dd8e10]: moby/moby@6dd8e10 [cli@38591f2]: docker@38591f2 Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
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runandstartto use container wait API #101remove support for AutoRemove (
--rm) on API < 1.30Support for daemon-side auto-remove was added in API v1.25; on older versions of the daemon, the client was responsible for removing the container after it exited (see moby@6dd8e10)
On API versions < 1.30, it used the events API for this purpose, and would wait for a "die", "detach" or "detroy" events to know the container exited, and could be removed or (when attached, but without a TTY) to get the container's exit-status. (see cli@38591f2).
API version 1.24 (docker 1.12) is 9 Years old (July 29, 2016), and API 1.30 (docker 17.06) is 8 Years old (Jun 20, 2017), and long EOL. While technically, a CLI could negotiate API 1.30 or older, this would only be in cases where either API version negotiation failed, or the version was explicitly overridden through
DOCKER_API_VERSIONfor testing.Either of those cases would be rare, and not worth the technical complexity to support. This patch removes support for AutoRemove on API < 1.30.
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