/* --timeout: Time to wait for a connection to 'db'. */
static int timeout;
+/* --retry: If true, ovs-vsctl will retry connecting to the database forever.
+ * If false and --db says to use an active connection method (e.g. "unix:",
+ * "tcp:", "ssl:"), then ovs-vsctl will try to connect once and exit with an
+ * error if the database server cannot be contacted (e.g. ovsdb-server is not
+ * running).
+ *
+ * Regardless of this setting, --timeout always limits how long ovs-vsctl will
+ * wait. */
+static bool retry;
+
/* Format for table output. */
static struct table_style table_style = TABLE_STYLE_DEFAULT;
}
/* Initialize IDL. */
- idl = the_idl = ovsdb_idl_create(db, &ovsrec_idl_class, false);
+ idl = the_idl = ovsdb_idl_create(db, &ovsrec_idl_class, false, retry);
run_prerequisites(commands, n_commands, idl);
/* Execute the commands.
seqno = ovsdb_idl_get_seqno(idl);
for (;;) {
ovsdb_idl_run(idl);
+ if (!ovsdb_idl_is_alive(idl)) {
+ int retval = ovsdb_idl_get_last_error(idl);
+ vsctl_fatal("%s: database connection failed (%s)",
+ db, ovs_retval_to_string(retval));
+ }
if (seqno != ovsdb_idl_get_seqno(idl)) {
seqno = ovsdb_idl_get_seqno(idl);
OPT_DRY_RUN,
OPT_PEER_CA_CERT,
OPT_LOCAL,
+ OPT_RETRY,
VLOG_OPTION_ENUMS,
TABLE_OPTION_ENUMS
};
{"dry-run", no_argument, NULL, OPT_DRY_RUN},
{"oneline", no_argument, NULL, OPT_ONELINE},
{"timeout", required_argument, NULL, 't'},
+ {"retry", no_argument, NULL, OPT_RETRY},
{"help", no_argument, NULL, 'h'},
{"version", no_argument, NULL, 'V'},
VLOG_LONG_OPTIONS,
}
break;
+ case OPT_RETRY:
+ retry = true;
+ break;
+
VLOG_OPTION_HANDLERS
TABLE_OPTION_HANDLERS(&table_style)
--db=DATABASE connect to DATABASE\n\
(default: %s)\n\
--no-wait do not wait for ovs-vswitchd to reconfigure\n\
+ --retry keep trying to connect to server forever\n\
-t, --timeout=SECS wait at most SECS seconds for ovs-vswitchd\n\
--dry-run do not commit changes to database\n\
--oneline print exactly one line of output per command\n",