FIXUP: give names to sec_vt_command's
[wireshark-wip.git] / tools / dftestlib / util.py
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1 # Copyright (c) 2013 by Gilbert Ramirez <gram@alumni.rice.edu>
3 # $Id$
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20 import subprocess
22 SUCCESS = 0
23 def exec_cmdv(cmdv, cwd=None, stdin=None):
24 """Run the commands in cmdv, returning (retval, output),
25 where output is stdout and stderr combined.
26 If cwd is given, the child process runs in that directory.
27 If a filehandle is passed as stdin, it is used as stdin.
28 If there is an OS-level error, None is the retval."""
30 try:
31 output = subprocess.check_output(cmdv, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
32 cwd=cwd, stdin=stdin)
33 retval = SUCCESS
35 # If file isn't executable
36 except OSError, e:
37 output = str(e)
38 retval = None
40 # If process returns non-zero
41 except subprocess.CalledProcessError, e:
42 output = e.output
43 retval = e.returncode
45 return (retval, output)