From: ShaoHe Feng <shaohef@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

We need a common function to execute shell command.
We also need timeout when execute shell command.

A threading.Timer is used to send signal.SIGKILL to kill the command
when timeout.

Signed-off-by: Royce Lv <lvroyce@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: ShaoHe Feng <shaohef@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 src/kimchi/utils.py | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/kimchi/utils.py b/src/kimchi/utils.py
index af245c6..c7165ce 100644
--- a/src/kimchi/utils.py
+++ b/src/kimchi/utils.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@

 import cherrypy
 import os
+import subprocess
 import urllib2


@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ from cherrypy.lib.reprconf import Parser


 from kimchi import config
+from threading import Timer


 kimchi_log = cherrypy.log.error_log
@@ -96,3 +98,44 @@ def check_url_path(path):
         return False

     return True
+
+
+def run_command(cmd, timeout=None):
+    def kill_proc(proc, timeout_flag):
+        timeout_flag[0] = True
+        proc.kill()
+
+    proc = None
+    timer = None
+    timeout_flag = [False]
+
+    try:
+        proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+                                stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+        if timeout is not None:
+            timer = Timer(timeout, kill_proc, [proc, timeout_flag])
+            timer.start()
+
+        out, error = proc.communicate()
+        kimchi_log.debug("Run command: '%s'", " ".join(cmd))
+
+        if out or error:
+            kimchi_log.debug("out:\n %s\nerror:\n %s", out, error)
+
+        if proc.returncode == -9 and timeout_flag[0] is True:
+            kimchi_log.error("subprocess is killed by signal.SIGKILL "
+                             "for timeout %s seconds", timeout)
+
+        return out, error, proc.returncode, timeout_flag[0]
+    except Exception as e:
+        msg = "Failed to run command: %s." % " ".join(cmd)
+        msg = msg if proc is None else msg + "\n  error code: %s."
+        kimchi_log.error("%s\n  %s", msg, e)
+
+        if proc:
+            return out, error, proc.returncode, timeout_flag[0]
+        else:
+            return None, None, None, timeout_flag[0]
+    finally:
+        if timer and not timeout_flag[0]:
+            timer.cancel()
