Drop the thread mutex. Set a (TLS) boolean at container start to indicate that the connection should be kept open; set it back to false only when container start is complete. Every cgm_ method opens the connection if not already open, and closes it if cgm_keep_connection is false. Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> Acked-by: Stéphane Graber <stgraber@ubuntu.com>