"kubectl attach" command hangs without providing interactive shell following "Share Process Namespace between Containers in a Pod" task

[novellat]

attaching doesn't work - when i run kubectl attach -it nginx -c shell I get

If you don't see a command prompt, try pressing enter.

and pressing enter doens't help

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[novellat]

what works though is kubectl exec -it nginx -c shell -- /bin/sh

[dipesh-rawat]

Page reported in issue (based on issue title): https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/share-process-namespace/ /language en

[dipesh-rawat]

/retitle "kubectl attach" command hangs without providing interactive shell following "Share Process Namespace between Containers in a Pod" task

[Aaina26]

I ran these commands on k8s v1.29 cluster kubectl attach -it nginx -c shell command does give the following output. I think it needs to be changed in the documentation

The suggested command kubectl exec -it nginx -c shell -- /bin/sh works fine