[PATCH 1/2] combo-layer: runcmd() with separate output

[Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>]

Allow the caller to specify a separate output stream. stderr is always
a temporary file opened by runcmd(), so read from that to capture
output for error reporting *and* the return value.

The reasoning for the latter is a) that this preserves the traditional
behavior when out=None and b) if the caller wants the content of
stdout, it can read from the stream itself, which is not possible for
the temporary stderr.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>
---
 scripts/combo-layer | 18 +++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/combo-layer b/scripts/combo-layer
index 5f10e83..fb3fb50 100755
--- a/scripts/combo-layer
+++ b/scripts/combo-layer
@@ -149,23 +149,27 @@ class Configuration(object):
             logger.error("ERROR: patchutils package is missing, please install it (e.g. # apt-get install patchutils)")
             sys.exit(1)
 
-def runcmd(cmd,destdir=None,printerr=True):
+def runcmd(cmd,destdir=None,printerr=True,out=None):
     """
         execute command, raise CalledProcessError if fail
         return output if succeed
     """
     logger.debug("run cmd '%s' in %s" % (cmd, os.getcwd() if destdir is None else destdir))
-    out = os.tmpfile()
+    if not out:
+        out = os.tmpfile()
+        err = out
+    else:
+        err = os.tmpfile()
     try:
-        subprocess.check_call(cmd, stdout=out, stderr=out, cwd=destdir, shell=True)
+        subprocess.check_call(cmd, stdout=out, stderr=err, cwd=destdir, shell=isinstance(cmd, str))
     except subprocess.CalledProcessError,e:
-        out.seek(0)
+        err.seek(0)
         if printerr:
-            logger.error("%s" % out.read())
+            logger.error("%s" % err.read())
         raise e
 
-    out.seek(0)
-    output = out.read()
+    err.seek(0)
+    output = err.read()
     logger.debug("output: %s" % output )
     return output
 
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