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-rw-r--r--python/vyos/util.py33
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diff --git a/python/vyos/util.py b/python/vyos/util.py
index cf90dc74f..8247ccb2d 100644
--- a/python/vyos/util.py
+++ b/python/vyos/util.py
@@ -506,6 +506,39 @@ def file_is_persistent(path):
absolute = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(path))
return re.match(location,absolute)
+def wait_for_inotify(file_path, event_type=None, timeout=None, sleep_interval=0.1):
+ """ Waits for an inotify event to occur """
+ if not os.path.dirname(file_path):
+ raise ValueError(
+ "File path {} does not have a directory part (required for inotify watching)".format(file_path))
+ if not os.path.basename(file_path):
+ raise ValueError(
+ "File path {} does not have a file part, do not know what to watch for".format(file_path))
+
+ from inotify.adapters import Inotify
+ from time import time
+
+ time_start = time()
+
+ i = Inotify()
+ i.add_watch(os.path.dirname(file_path))
+
+ for event in i.event_gen(yield_nones=True):
+ if (timeout is not None) and ((time.time() - time_start) > timeout):
+ # If the function didn't return until this point,
+ # the file failed to have been written to and closed within the timeout
+ raise OSError("Waiting for file {} to be written has failed".format(file_path))
+
+ if event is not None:
+ (_, type_names, path, filename) = event
+ if filename == os.path.basename(file_path):
+ if event_type in type_names:
+ return
+
+def wait_for_file_write_complete(file_path, timeout=None, sleep_interval=0.1):
+ """ Waits for a process to close a file after opening it in write mode. """
+ wait_for_inotify(file_path,
+ event_type='IN_CLOSE_WRITE', timeout=timeout, sleep_interval=sleep_interval)
def commit_in_progress():
""" Not to be used in normal op mode scripts! """