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moulinette/utils/process.py

@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ def call_async_output(args, callback, **kwargs):
             raise ValueError('%s argument not allowed, '
                              'it will be overridden.' % a)
 
-
     if "stdinfo" in kwargs and kwargs["stdinfo"] != None:
         assert len(callback) == 3
         stdinfo = kwargs.pop("stdinfo")
@@ -91,10 +90,15 @@ def call_async_output(args, callback, **kwargs):
     if separate_stderr:
         stderr_reader, stderr_consum = async_file_reading(p.stderr, callback[1])
         if stdinfo:
-            stdinfo_f = open(stdinfo, "r")
+            # Open stdinfo for reading (in a nonblocking way, i.e. even
+            # if command does not write in the stdinfo pipe...)
+            stdinfo_f = os.open(stdinfo, os.O_RDONLY|os.O_NONBLOCK)
             stdinfo_reader, stdinfo_consum = async_file_reading(stdinfo_f, callback[2])
-            while not stdout_reader.eof() or not stderr_reader.eof() or not stdinfo_reader.eof():
+            while not stdout_reader.eof() or not stderr_reader.eof():
                 time.sleep(.1)
+            # Remove the stdinfo pipe
+            os.remove(stdinfo)
+            os.rmdir(os.path.dirname(stdinfo))
             stdinfo_reader.join()
             stdinfo_consum.join()
 
@@ -108,11 +112,6 @@ def call_async_output(args, callback, **kwargs):
     stdout_reader.join()
     stdout_consum.join()
 
-    if stdinfo:
-        stdinfo_f.close()
-        os.remove(stdinfo)
-        os.rmdir(os.path.dirname(stdinfo))
-
     # on slow hardware, in very edgy situations it is possible that the process
     # isn't finished just after having closed stdout and stderr, so we wait a
     # bit to give hime the time to finish (while having a timeout)

moulinette/utils/stream.py

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+import os
+import time
+
 from multiprocessing.process import Process
 from multiprocessing.queues import SimpleQueue
 
@@ -18,16 +21,45 @@ class AsynchronousFileReader(Process):
     def __init__(self, fd, queue):
         assert hasattr(queue, 'put')
         assert hasattr(queue, 'empty')
-        assert callable(fd.readline)
+        assert isinstance(fd, int) or callable(fd.readline)
         Process.__init__(self)
         self._fd = fd
         self._queue = queue
 
     def run(self):
         """The body of the tread: read lines and put them on the queue."""
+
+        # If self._fd is a file opened with open()...
+        # Typically that's for stdout/stderr pipes
+        # We can read the stuff easily with 'readline'
+        if not isinstance(self._fd, int):
             for line in iter(self._fd.readline, ''):
                 self._queue.put(line)
 
+        # Else, it got opened with os.open() and we have to read it
+        # wit low level crap...
+        else:
+            data = ""
+            while True:
+                # If nobody's writing in there anymore, get out
+                if os.fstat(self._fd).st_nlink == 0:
+                    print "Plop"
+                    self._queue.put("(Info returning because no link)")
+                    return
+
+                # Read (non-blockingly) a few bytes, append them to the buffer
+                data += os.read(self._fd, 50)
+                print data
+
+                # If we have data, extract a line (ending with \n) and feed
+                # it to the consumer
+                if data and '\n' in data:
+                    lines = data.split('\n')
+                    self._queue.put(lines[0])
+                    data = '\n'.join(lines[1:])
+                else:
+                    time.sleep(0.1)
+
     def eof(self):
         """Check whether there is no more content to expect."""
         return not self.is_alive() and self._queue.empty()
@@ -36,6 +68,9 @@ class AsynchronousFileReader(Process):
         """Close the file and join the thread."""
         if close:
             self._queue.put(StopIteration)
+            if isinstance(self._fd, int):
+                os.close(self._fd)
+            else:
                 self._fd.close()
         Process.join(self, timeout)