.vscode-remote-containers folder create in Remote-SSH without interaction

[chrmarti]

From #10505: It seems we create that as a side effect of checking if there is a devcontainer.json in the current workspace folder.

[pmoris]

Thanks, Christof!

Just to clarify, this happens when there is no devcontainer.json file present, but simply when connecting to a remote without specifying a particular workspace folder.

The extensions I have installed are all those in the remote development pack:

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code --list-extensions --profile test-profile
ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers
ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh
ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-edit
ms-vscode-remote.remote-wsl
ms-vscode-remote.vscode-remote-extensionpack
ms-vscode.remote-explorer
ms-vscode.remote-server

And lastly, since this was tested on a new profile that inherits some of the base settings from my default one, unsetting the shared remote.SSH.serverInstallPath setting, appears to resolve the issue.

Expand log with serverInstallPath set:

[174 ms] Dev Containers 0.394.0 over Remote - SSH 0.116.1 in VS Code 1.96.4 (cd4ee3b1c348a13bafd8f9ad8060705f6d4b9cba).
[173 ms] Start: Loading environment from ExecServer
[204 ms] Host OS: linux 4.18.0-513.24.1.el8_9.x86_64
[205 ms] Host CWD: /
[206 ms] Start: Run: /bin/sh 
[259 ms] Start: Run in host: echo ~
[317 ms] /user/antwerpen/203/vsc20380
[317 ms] 
[318 ms] Start: Run in host: id -un
[382 ms] vsc20380
[382 ms] 
[383 ms] Start: Run in host:  (command -v getent >/dev/null 2>&1 && getent passwd 'vsc20380' || grep -E '^vsc20380|^[^:]*:[^:]*:vsc20380:' /etc/passwd || true)
[457 ms] userEnvProbe: loginInteractiveShell (default)
[457 ms] userEnvProbe: not found in cache
[458 ms] userEnvProbe shell: /bin/bash
[2119 ms] userEnvProbe PATHs:
Probe:     '/apps/antwerpen/scripts:/data/antwerpen/203/vsc20380/miniforge3/bin:/data/antwerpen/203/vsc20380/miniforge3/condabin:/user/antwerpen/203/vsc20380/.local/bin:/user/antwerpen/203/vsc20380/bin:/apps/antwerpen/scripts:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin'
Container: None
[2184 ms] Start: Run: uname -m
[2262 ms] Start: Run: /bin/sh (cat /etc/os-release || cat /usr/lib/os-release) 2>/dev/null
[2341 ms] Start: Downloading VS Code Server
[2342 ms] cd4ee3b1c348a13bafd8f9ad8060705f6d4b9cba linux-x64 stable
[9729 ms] Start: Extracting tarball
[9731 ms] Start: Run: mkdir -p /user/antwerpen/203/vsc20380/.vscode-remote-containers/bin/cd4ee3b1c348a13bafd8f9ad8060705f6d4b9cba_1738738731926
[9843 ms] Start: Run: tar --no-same-owner -x --strip-components 1 -C /user/antwerpen/203/vsc20380/.vscode-remote-containers/bin/cd4ee3b1c348a13bafd8f9ad8060705f6d4b9cba_1738738731926
[32223 ms] Start: Run: mv -n /user/antwerpen/203/vsc20380/.vscode-remote-containers/bin/cd4ee3b1c348a13bafd8f9ad8060705f6d4b9cba_1738738731926 /user/antwerpen/203/vsc20380/.vscode-remote-containers/bin/cd4ee3b1c348a13bafd8f9ad8060705f6d4b9cba
[32452 ms] Initializing configuration support...
[32453 ms] Internal initialization of dev container support package...

Expand log without serverInstallPath set:

[210 ms] Dev Containers 0.394.0 over Remote - SSH 0.116.1 in VS Code 1.96.4 (cd4ee3b1c348a13bafd8f9ad8060705f6d4b9cba).
[209 ms] Start: Loading environment from ExecServer
[237 ms] Host OS: linux 4.18.0-513.24.1.el8_9.x86_64
[237 ms] Host CWD: /
[238 ms] Start: Run: /bin/sh 
[292 ms] Start: Run in host: echo ~
[333 ms] /user/antwerpen/203/vsc20380
[334 ms] 
[334 ms] Start: Run in host: id -un
[393 ms] vsc20380
[393 ms] 
[394 ms] Start: Run in host:  (command -v getent >/dev/null 2>&1 && getent passwd 'vsc20380' || grep -E '^vsc20380|^[^:]*:[^:]*:vsc20380:' /etc/passwd || true)
[455 ms] userEnvProbe: loginInteractiveShell (default)
[455 ms] userEnvProbe: not found in cache
[456 ms] userEnvProbe shell: /bin/bash
[2050 ms] userEnvProbe PATHs:
Probe:     '/apps/antwerpen/scripts:/data/antwerpen/203/vsc20380/miniforge3/bin:/data/antwerpen/203/vsc20380/miniforge3/condabin:/user/antwerpen/203/vsc20380/.local/bin:/user/antwerpen/203/vsc20380/bin:/apps/antwerpen/scripts:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin'
Container: None
[2239 ms] Initializing configuration support...
[2239 ms] Internal initialization of dev container support package...

Confirmed in both Windows and Fedora Linux for Dev Containers 0.394.0 over Remote - SSH 0.116.1 in VS Code 1.96.4 (and 1.96.2).