Source code for ceilometer.utils

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"""Utilities and helper functions."""

import threading

from oslo_concurrency import processutils
from oslo_config import cfg

ROOTWRAP_CONF = "/etc/ceilometer/rootwrap.conf"

OPTS = [
    cfg.StrOpt('rootwrap_config',
               default=ROOTWRAP_CONF,
               help='Path to the rootwrap configuration file to '
                    'use for running commands as root'),
]


def _get_root_helper():
    global ROOTWRAP_CONF
    return 'sudo ceilometer-rootwrap %s' % ROOTWRAP_CONF


[docs]def setup_root_helper(conf):
    global ROOTWRAP_CONF
    ROOTWRAP_CONF = conf.rootwrap_config


[docs]def execute(*cmd, **kwargs):
    """Convenience wrapper around oslo's execute() method."""
    if 'run_as_root' in kwargs and 'root_helper' not in kwargs:
        kwargs['root_helper'] = _get_root_helper()
    return processutils.execute(*cmd, **kwargs)


[docs]def spawn_thread(target, *args, **kwargs):
    t = threading.Thread(target=target, args=args, kwargs=kwargs)
    t.daemon = True
    t.start()
    return t