Operating Systems Good First Issues

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LinuxContainer.create() leaks the VZ VM/XPC process when vm.start() throws — no do/catch around it Open

apple/containerization#804 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: archive extraction strips special permission bits Open

apple/containerization#818 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Add a test target covering vmexec Console.configureStdIO Open

apple/containerization#844 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Integration suite: kernel drift from the shipped tool, a reaper that deletes the shared rootfs, and silently skipped tests Open

apple/containerization#899 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Request]: Minimal nftables support to enable DNS queries on port other than :53 Open

apple/containerization#904 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Request]: Enable Cilium's base kernel requirements in the kernel configs Open

apple/containerization#912 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: kernel configs build an nft-only kernel on linux-6.18.5 (NETFILTER_XTABLES_LEGACY unset), legacy iptables tables disappear Open

apple/containerization#913 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Windows build fails on Swift 6.1+: ThreadWindows Sendable conformance + IPPROTO/BinaryFloatingPoint (incorrectly closed as dup of unrelated #2065) Open

apple/swift-nio#3647 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
NIOFS: To set file attributes I need to open a file, no direct API Open

apple/swift-nio#3648 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
NIOFileSystem: No API to get the on-disk size Open

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apple/swift-nio#3650 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
NIOFileSystem: Feature request: advisory file locking support Open

apple/swift-nio#3691 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Windows] WSASend error in bi-directional stream tests of Hummingbird Open

apple/swift-nio#3697 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
NIOFileSystem: Unable to use file handle closures from non-sending contexts Open

apple/swift-nio#3720 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: Terminal resize SIGWINCH forwarding prints missing signal in xpc message Open

apple/container#1747 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
container system start ignores launchctl exit status and daemon app-root, silently adopting a daemon bound to a different --app-root Open

reliability

apple/container#1757 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Request]: Remove unnecessary arm64 kernel HW support (i.e. legacy x86 8250 and friends) Open

apple/container#1761 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Request]: User-specified mounts in machines. Open

apple/container#1805 · 0 comments · 23 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Request]: Buildkit should work without Rosetta 2 Open

apple/container#1825 · 7 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: Cannot use external APFS volume as container filesystem due to permission/ownership errors Open

apple/container#1830 · 5 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: Can't run amd64 container machine on Apple Silicon Open

reliability

apple/container#1843 · 4 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: container hangs and cant terminate (^Cfailed to send signal: ["error": invalidArgument: "missing signal in xpc message", "signal": 2]) Open

apple/container#1876 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
Per-container operations hang indefinitely (create stuck at [6/6]; teardown never completes after workload exit); hung ops cascade and can drop a custom network's gateway until the hung client is killed (1.0.0) Open

apple/container#1884 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Request]: Support seccomp inside the container Open

apple/container#1915 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: container exec/stop hang indefinitely on SSH reconnect, requiring full macOS restart to recover Open

apple/container#1916 · 10 comments · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: leftover /etc/resolver/containerization.* 'search' directive hangs ALL bare-hostname DNS lookups system-wide once apiserver stops Open

stability

apple/container#1917 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Request]: Can we have a stable interface for querying the amount of memory that is being used by the underlying virtual machine. Open

apple/container#1921 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Request]: Pre-warmed Micro-VM pool to reduce container cold-start latency Open

apple/container#1924 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: Intermittent Permission Errors reading hard links from the mount directory Open

apple/container#1937 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Request]: Add a `container upgrade` command Open

apple/container#1942 · 2 comments · 7 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Request]: container machine run should spawn a login shell Open

apple/container#1991 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: XPCClient causes fatal SWIFT TASK CONTINUATION MISUSE crash on delayed replies Open

stability

apple/container#2007 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: `container system start` discards launchctl bootstrap failures, yielding a misleading XPC error in non-login (CI) sessions Open

stability

apple/container#2008 · 6 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: virtio-fs: disk space from deleted files in a bind-mounted volume is not released until the container is stopped Open

apple/container#2021 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: `container machine create` succeeds for images without /sbin/init, then boot fails with a misleading error Open

apple/container#2024 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: completed exec state is retained in container-runtime-linux Open

reliability

apple/container#2057 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: XPC peer validation uses non-public API xpc_dictionary_get_audit_token, blocking App Store redistribution Open

apple/container#2087 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: publish-socket cannot relay a socket on tmpfs with read-only root Open

apple/container#2101 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: `usermod -aG docker $USER` has no effect in `container machine` Open

apple/container#2108 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: container k8s create fails when node preparation invokes iptables-nft Open

apple/container#2120 · 9 comments · 2 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: container exec does not join the container's IPC namespace (mount and PID namespaces are joined correctly) Open

apple/container#2132 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Request]: Clean container root fs and rw-mounted volumes periodically. Open

enhancement storage

apple/container#2206 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: Unknown XPC peer error codes can terminate the client Open

apple/container#2240 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: vminitd: parallel clients of the forwarded ssh-agent hang on live connections; the container's terminal can freeze with them Open

apple/container#2247 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: signal.alarm() returns corrupted (sign-flipped) value in x86_64 Linux guest running under Rosetta translation Open

apple/container#2255 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[Bug]: container cp fails for every container created before a package upgrade (stale per-container vminitd); upload direction fails silently with exit 0 Open

apple/container#2258 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
RHEL Body Open

apple/foundationdb#13858 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
dev/release: run verification on Windows on ARM Open

Type: enhancement

apache/arrow-adbc#4685 · 1 comment · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[BUG] RP2040 issues running OSTest Open

Arch: arm Area: Applications Area: OS Components OS: Linux Type: Bug

apache/nuttx#19253 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[BUG] Raspberry Pi Pico W has WiFi connection issues/crashing Open

Arch: arm Area: Networking OS: Linux Type: Bug

apache/nuttx#19254 · 2 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026
[FEATURE] Unification of STM32 Nucleo boards Open

Type: Enhancement

apache/nuttx#19296 · 0 comments · 0 reactions · 0 assignees · Indexed Sep 14, 2026

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