In opencontainers/runtime-tools#557, @liangchenye pointed out that runc doesn't currently support the spec's creating status. #1704 is in-flight as part of status cleanup, and I was planning to work up a creating PR after #1704 settled. I'm filing this placeholder issue in the meantime, in case the runc maintainers want to add it to the 1.0.0 milestone. Or maybe someone else wants to work up the creating PR for me ;).

While working on this, we may also want to address runc create's apparently early exit. More information on that in opencontainers/runtime-tools#563.