On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Apollon Oikonomopoulos
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 15:39 Tue 11 Jan     , Michael Hanselmann wrote:
>> Am 10. Januar 2011 16:05 schrieb Apollon Oikonomopoulos 
>> <[email protected]>:
>> > Passing tap devices to KVM as file descriptors requires that the respective
>> > file decriptors remain open during utils.RunCmd execution. To this 
>> > direction,
>> > we add a “noclose_fds” keyword argument to utils.RunCmd, accepting a list 
>> > of
>> > file descriptors to keep open. The actual fd handling is implemented in
>> > _RunCmdPipe and _RunCmdFile using subprocess.Popen's “preexec_fn”[1],
>> > since subprocess.Popen provides no other way to selectively handle fds.
>> >
>> > A small modification is also made to test/ganeti.utils_unittest.py to 
>> > comply
>> > with _RunCmdPipe's new API and a new unit test is added to test the 
>> > selective
>> > fd retention functionality.
>> >
>> > [1] “If preexec_fn is set to a callable object, this object will be called 
>> > in
>> >     the child process just before the child is executed. (Unix only)”
>> >    Subprocess documentation
>>
>> LGTM, but this will need a rebase after the utils split. Unless you
>> want to do it, I can do it tomorrow.
>>
>> Michael
>
> No, I'll do it since I also have to rebase the rest of the series anyway
> ;-)
>

I can do it as well as part of pushing: it's just applying the same
code change to another file, so...

Guido

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