"""A few things that didn't seem to fit anywhere else.""" import cPickle import errno import os import pwd import tempfile import threading import fcntl import commands import logger PID_FILE = '/var/run/nm.pid' def as_daemon_thread(run): """Call function with no arguments in its own thread.""" thr = threading.Thread(target=run) thr.setDaemon(True) thr.start() def close_nonstandard_fds(): """Close all open file descriptors other than 0, 1, and 2.""" _SC_OPEN_MAX = 4 for fd in range(3, os.sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX)): try: os.close(fd) except OSError: pass # most likely an fd that isn't open # after http://www.erlenstar.demon.co.uk/unix/faq_2.html def daemon(): """Daemonize the current process.""" if os.fork() != 0: os._exit(0) os.setsid() if os.fork() != 0: os._exit(0) os.chdir('/') os.umask(0) devnull = os.open(os.devnull, os.O_RDWR) os.dup2(devnull, 0) # xxx fixme - this is just to make sure that nothing gets stupidly lost - should use devnull crashlog = os.open('/var/log/nm.daemon', os.O_RDWR | os.O_APPEND | os.O_CREAT, 0644) os.dup2(crashlog, 1) os.dup2(crashlog, 2) def fork_as(su, function, *args): """fork(), cd / to avoid keeping unused directories open, close all nonstandard file descriptors (to avoid capturing open sockets), fork() again (to avoid zombies) and call with arguments in the grandchild process. If is not None, set our group and user ids appropriately in the child process.""" child_pid = os.fork() if child_pid == 0: try: os.chdir('/') close_nonstandard_fds() if su: pw_ent = pwd.getpwnam(su) os.setegid(pw_ent[3]) os.seteuid(pw_ent[2]) child_pid = os.fork() if child_pid == 0: function(*args) except: os.seteuid(os.getuid()) # undo su so we can write the log file os.setegid(os.getgid()) logger.log_exc() os._exit(0) else: os.waitpid(child_pid, 0) def pid_file(): """We use a pid file to ensure that only one copy of NM is running at a given time. If successful, this function will write a pid file containing the pid of the current process. The return value is the pid of the other running process, or None otherwise.""" other_pid = None if os.access(PID_FILE, os.F_OK): # check for a pid file handle = open(PID_FILE) # pid file exists, read it other_pid = int(handle.read()) handle.close() # check for a process with that pid by sending signal 0 try: os.kill(other_pid, 0) except OSError, e: if e.errno == errno.ESRCH: other_pid = None # doesn't exist else: raise # who knows if other_pid == None: # write a new pid file write_file(PID_FILE, lambda f: f.write(str(os.getpid()))) return other_pid def write_file(filename, do_write, **kw_args): """Write file atomically by opening a temporary file, using to write that file, and then renaming the temporary file.""" os.rename(write_temp_file(do_write, **kw_args), filename) def write_temp_file(do_write, mode=None, uidgid=None): fd, temporary_filename = tempfile.mkstemp() if mode: os.chmod(temporary_filename, mode) if uidgid: os.chown(temporary_filename, *uidgid) f = os.fdopen(fd, 'w') try: do_write(f) finally: f.close() return temporary_filename # utilities functions to get (cached) information from the node # get node_id from /etc/planetlab/node_id and cache it _node_id=None def node_id(): global _node_id if _node_id is None: try: _node_id=int(file("/etc/planetlab/node_id").read()) except: _node_id="" return _node_id # get slicefamily from /etc/planetlab/slicefamily and cache it # http://svn.planet-lab.org/wiki/SliceFamily _slicefamily=None def slicefamily(): global _slicefamily if _slicefamily is None: try: _slicefamily=file("/etc/planetlab/slicefamily").read().strip() except: _slicefamily="" return _slicefamily _root_context_arch=None def root_context_arch(): global _root_context_arch if not _root_context_arch: _root_context_arch=commands.getoutput("uname -i") return _root_context_arch class NMLock: def __init__(self, file): logger.log("Lock %s initialized." % file, 2) self.fd = os.open(file, os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREAT, 0600) flags = fcntl.fcntl(self.fd, fcntl.F_GETFD) flags |= fcntl.FD_CLOEXEC fcntl.fcntl(self.fd, fcntl.F_SETFD, flags) def __del__(self): os.close(self.fd) def acquire(self): logger.log("Lock acquired.", 2) fcntl.lockf(self.fd, fcntl.LOCK_SH) def release(self): logger.log("Lock released.", 2) fcntl.lockf(self.fd, fcntl.LOCK_UN)