On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 7:34 PM, Aaron Conole <[email protected]> wrote:
> With commit cb139fa8b3a1 ("table: New function table_format() for
> formatting a table as a string.") a new mechanism for formatting
> tables was introduced, and the table_print method was refactored to
> use this.
>
> During that refactor, calls to 'puts' were replaced with
> 'ds_put_cstr', and table print was changed to use 'fputs(...,
> stdout)'.  Unfortunately, fputs() does not append a newline to the
> string provided, and changes the output strings of, for example,
> ovsdb-client dump to print all on one line.  This means
> post-processing scripts that are chained after ovsdb-client would
> either block indefinitely (if they don't detect EOF), or process the
> entire bundle at once (rather than seeing each table on a separate
> line).
>
> Fixes: cb139fa8b3a1 ("table: New function table_format() for formatting a 
> table as a string.")
> Cc: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jakub Sitnicki <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Terry Wilson <[email protected]>
> Reported-at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1608508
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <[email protected]>
> Suggested-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
> ---
>  lib/table.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/lib/table.c b/lib/table.c
> index cd811caf5..19bf89262 100644
> --- a/lib/table.c
> +++ b/lib/table.c
> @@ -547,6 +547,7 @@ table_print_json__(const struct table *table, const 
> struct table_style *style,
>      json_object_put(json, "data", data);
>
>      json_to_ds(json, style->json_flags, s);
> +    ds_put_char(s, '\n');
>      json_destroy(json);
>  }
>
> --
> 2.14.3
>

I can verify that this re-adds the newline and that it fixes the issue
in neutron's ovs-agent.

Acked-by: Terry Wilson <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Terry Wilson <[email protected]>
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