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Use popen in ndn_application

Added by Ashlesh Gawande almost 7 years ago. Updated almost 6 years ago.

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05/05/2017
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Currently we use cmd. Then we use a shell command to get the pid - which is unreliable.

But Popen needs to be run with correct HOME environment, otherwise NLSR can't connect with NFD.

Popen does not seem to work correctly for cluster, even when HOME environment is passed:

out = self.node.popen("printenv").stdout.read()
env = {}
for elem in out.split("\n"):
if elem != "":
    tmp=elem.split("=")
    env[tmp[0]] = tmp[1]
    env["HOME"] = self.node.homeFolder
self.popen = self.node.popen(command.split(), env=env)

So maybe for now keep using cmd for cluster:
https://gerrit.named-data.net/#/c/3870/3/ndn/ndn_application.py


Related issues 1 (1 open0 closed)

Related to mini-ndn - Task #3051: Investigate Mininet's per-host private directories feature for NFD socket fileCode reviewDamian Coomes07/17/2015

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Actions #1

Updated by Junxiao Shi almost 7 years ago

mnndn has used popen for years.
The trick is passing privateDirs to mininet.node.Host constructor, so that $HOME can keep its default value of /root and does not need to be overridden.

Actions #2

Updated by Ashlesh Gawande almost 7 years ago

  • Related to Task #3051: Investigate Mininet's per-host private directories feature for NFD socket file added
Actions #3

Updated by Ashlesh Gawande over 6 years ago

  • Target version set to v0.7.0
Actions #4

Updated by Junxiao Shi almost 6 years ago

Popen does not seem to work correctly for cluster, even when HOME environment is passed:

Mininet Cluster Edition implements RemoteMixin._popen as follows:

    def _popen( self, cmd, sudo=True, tt=True, **params):
        if self.isRemote:
            if sudo:
                cmd = [ 'sudo', '-E' ] + cmd
            if tt:
                cmd = self.sshcmd + cmd
            else:
                # Hack: remove -tt
                sshcmd = list( self.sshcmd )
                sshcmd.remove( '-tt' )
                cmd = sshcmd + cmd
        else:
            if self.user and not sudo:
                # Drop privileges
                cmd = [ 'sudo', '-E', '-u', self.user ] + cmd
        popen = super( RemoteMixin, self )._popen( cmd, **params )
        return popen

When you pass env to node.popen, the environment variables apply to "ssh" process, but the remote command (such as /usr/bin/nfd) does not receive them.
You could set environment variables in the command line before passing them to node.popen, but it's better to patch RemoteMixin._popen with this feature and send a pull request.

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