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author | Chris Luke <chrisy@flirble.org> | 2017-09-20 23:31:24 -0400 |
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committer | Florin Coras <florin.coras@gmail.com> | 2017-09-21 22:54:33 +0000 |
commit | 03add7f5b5e5351790187ea6d7e83803d5be2440 (patch) | |
tree | 5d7b341c150fb55ab465c520235f8da2264fff7d /src/examples/sample-plugin/sample_plugin_doc.md | |
parent | ed3c160983d302909dee5223675a2b356d306c81 (diff) |
vppctl,cli: Improve non-interactive vppctl (VPP-944)
Short version: Make vppctl behave as expected when run
from scripts, or without a controlling terminal, and
especially when using it with VPP commands on its
command line ("non-interactively").
In particular, prevent the welcome banner and VPP CLI
prompt from being sent by VPP when being used in these
ways.
vppctl
------
- Improve vppctl's detection of non-interactive sessions.
- Pass non-interactiveness in the terminal type telnet option
as a value distinct from "dumb" (which means non-ANSI capable.)
- Make tty setup handling more robust.
- Only send non-interactive command once we've sent the
terminal type, to ensure correct event sequence; we need
the VPP cli session to be in line-by-line mode.
- Ignore stdin when it looks something like /dev/null.
- Skip NUL bytes received from VPP.
VPP CLI
-------
- Detect "non-interactive" terminal types and set session
parameters accordingly.
- Add an "interactive" flag that controls whether the welcome
banner and CLI prompt are sent.
- Detect if telnet options processing switched us into line
mode and act accordingly for the rest of the current input
buffer. This was causing the command string to be echoed
by the CLI editor code.
- For non-interactive sessions, send a NUL byte after the
input buffer has been processed. This is because vppctl
depends on seeing traffic before it will try to close the
session; a command with no output would cause it to hang.
NUL bytes are ignored by all decent terminals, but we have
vppctl strip them out anyway.
- Prevent certain commands from running in non-interactive
sessions since they manipulate interactive-related features.
- For interactive sessions, quench the prompt that prints on
VPP shutdown.
- Detect and handle socket errors in the CLI; sessions were
leaking.
- Pevent SIGPIPE from ever being raised; handle EPIPE instead.
We don't need VPP to die just because a socket closed just
before we try to write to it!
- Add a command to dump a list of current CLI sessions; mostly
this was to detect session leakage, but it may have some
general utility.
Change-Id: Ia147da013317180882c1d967b18eefb8519a55fb
Signed-off-by: Chris Luke <chrisy@flirble.org>
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