update

Signed-off-by: jason yang <jasonyangshadow@gmail.com>

internal/pkg/runtime/engine/apptainer/container_linux.go

@@ -222,6 +222,10 @@ func create(ctx context.Context, engine *EngineOperations, rpcOps *client.RPC, p
 		return err
 	}
 
+	if err := system.RunBeforeTag(mount.BindsTag, c.patchLocaltime); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
 	if err := c.addRootfsMount(system); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -318,11 +322,6 @@ func create(ctx context.Context, engine *EngineOperations, rpcOps *client.RPC, p
 	close(mountAllErr)
 	close(driverMountErr)
 
-	err = c.patchLocaltime(system)
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Wrap(err, "patching /etc/localtime failure")
-	}
-
 	if engine.EngineConfig.GetSessionLayer() == apptainer.UnderlayLayer {
 		// Underlay bind points can interfere with unmounting
 		//  the image, so unmount all those bind points first
@@ -3091,12 +3090,10 @@ func (c *container) patchLocaltime(system *mount.System) error {
 			if p, err := os.Readlink(localtime); err == nil {
 				// check whether the link target exists inside container
 				if _, err := os.Stat(c.session.RootFsPath() + p); err == nil {
+					sylog.Verbosef("%s inside container is symlink, will patch it to host target: %s", localtime, p)
 					if err := c.session.AddSymlink(localtime, p); err != nil {
 						return fmt.Errorf("could not add symlink %s -> %s inside container, err: %v", localtime, p, err)
 					}
-					if err := c.session.Update(); err != nil {
-						return fmt.Errorf("failed to update session info, err: %v", err)
-					}
 				}
 			}
 		}