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[PULL,v2,51/57] docker: docker.py use "version" to probe usage

Message ID 20180621062605.941-52-alex.bennee@linaro.org
State Accepted
Commit 83405c4517679722257b1560f75fb7488b671374
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Series add check-tcg and associated machinery | expand

Commit Message

Alex Bennée June 21, 2018, 6:25 a.m. UTC
The "images" command is a fairly heavyweight command to run as it
involves searching the whole docker file-system inventory. On a
machine with a lot of images this makes start-up fairly expensive.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>


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diff --git a/tests/docker/docker.py b/tests/docker/docker.py
index b28ad87034..e6437d64a7 100755
--- a/tests/docker/docker.py
+++ b/tests/docker/docker.py
@@ -52,7 +52,9 @@  def _guess_docker_command():
     commands = [["docker"], ["sudo", "-n", "docker"]]
     for cmd in commands:
         try:
-            if subprocess.call(cmd + ["images"],
+            # docker version will return the client details in stdout
+            # but still report a status of 1 if it can't contact the daemon
+            if subprocess.call(cmd + ["version"],
                                stdout=DEVNULL, stderr=DEVNULL) == 0:
                 return cmd
         except OSError: