Interestingly if we inspect a normal "podman" process we see:
PID: 846098 TASK: ffff9c20fd8ddc40 CPU: 1 COMMAND: "podman"
ARG: /usr/bin/podman --root /var/lib/containers/storage --runroot /var/run/containers/storage --log-level error --cgroup-manager systemd --tmpdir /var/run/libpod --runtime runc --storage-driver overlay --storage-opt overlay.mountopt=nodev,metacopy=on --events-backend file container cleanup 881e8ef19bb5e57de90c1fb2a784f821934707b1075c44452e2e355b9df3aba7
ENV: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
_OCI_SYNCPIPE=3
_OCI_STARTPIPE=4
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=
_CONTAINERS_USERNS_CONFIGURED=
_CONTAINERS_ROOTLESS_UID=
But those '(podman)' processes do not show any arguments nor env variables:
PID: 846103 TASK: ffff9c20f8aa1ec0 CPU: 1 COMMAND: "(podman)"
ARG: (podman)
ENV: HOME=/
TERM=vt220
BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,msdos1)/boot/vmlinuz-4.18.0-240.10.1.el8_3.x86_64
crashkernel=auto
Interestingly if we inspect a normal "podman" process we see: containers/ storage --runroot /var/run/ containers/ storage --log-level error --cgroup-manager systemd --tmpdir /var/run/libpod --runtime runc --storage-driver overlay --storage-opt overlay. mountopt= nodev,metacopy= on --events-backend file container cleanup 881e8ef19bb5e57 de90c1fb2a784f8 21934707b1075c4 4452e2e355b9df3 aba7 local/sbin: /usr/local/ bin:/usr/ sbin:/usr/ bin:/sbin: /bin SYNCPIPE= 3 STARTPIPE= 4 RUNTIME_ DIR= S_USERNS_ CONFIGURED= S_ROOTLESS_ UID=
PID: 846098 TASK: ffff9c20fd8ddc40 CPU: 1 COMMAND: "podman"
ARG: /usr/bin/podman --root /var/lib/
ENV: PATH=/usr/
_OCI_
_OCI_
XDG_
_CONTAINER
_CONTAINER
But those '(podman)' processes do not show any arguments nor env variables: IMAGE=( hd0,msdos1) /boot/vmlinuz- 4.18.0- 240.10. 1.el8_3. x86_64 l=auto
PID: 846103 TASK: ffff9c20f8aa1ec0 CPU: 1 COMMAND: "(podman)"
ARG: (podman)
ENV: HOME=/
TERM=vt220
BOOT_
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