Github user wido commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/784#discussion_r39248790 --- Diff: systemvm/patches/debian/config/opt/cloud/bin/cs/CsAddress.py --- @@ -95,9 +95,25 @@ def get_control_if(self): return ip return None + def check_if_link_exists(self,dev): + cmd="ip link show dev %s"%dev + result=CsHelper.execute(cmd) + if(len(result)!=0): + return True + else: + return False + + def check_if_link_up(self,dev): + cmd="ip link show dev %s | tr '\n' ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 9"%dev --- End diff -- We should keep as much logic in Python as possible. The performance difference is small, but with tr and grep you spawn subprocessess again. But as @remibergsma says. Try to open that file in /sys and parse the contents. You can use the simple Python file functions. No need to execute IP. The less subprocesses we execute, the better.
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