I've changed the way things work a bit:
1. netns is replaced by mnexec, a general-purpose mininet helper.
2. For interactive commands, we now use mnexec -p, which prints out
the pid, so we can kill it when someone hits control-C!
3. We close file descriptors for subshells. This might save memory,
but who knows.
4. We detach our subshells from the tty using mnexec -s; thus
control-C should not terminate everything.
5. Given 4, mn -c is now necessary if you kill mininet.
I've changed the way things work a bit:
1. netns is replaced by mnexec, a general-purpose mininet helper.
2. For interactive commands, we now use mnexec -p, which prints out
the pid, so we can kill it when someone hits control-C!
3. We close file descriptors for subshells. This might save memory,
but who knows.
4. We detach our subshells from the tty using mnexec -s; thus
control-C should not terminate everything.
5. Given 4, mn -c is now necessary if you kill mininet.
Call netns using setsid to detach from the tty; this is
intended to fix the problem of control-C killing your network.
sendInt() doesn't actually work - hopefully we can fix this in the
future, but it's tricky since we want to detach the many shells from
our tty, but then optionally send tty interrupts to them! Ideally we
would either know the pid of the subprocess or be able to send a signal
to bash to get it to interrupt its subprocess.
waitOutput() now uses monitor. We also handle sentinels
coming in the middle of output (but default at end should
still work well.)
Call netns using setsid to detach from the tty; this is
intended to fix the problem of control-C killing your network.
sendInt() doesn't actually work - hopefully we can fix this in the
future, but it's tricky since we want to detach the many shells from
our tty, but then optionally send tty interrupts to them! Ideally we
would either know the pid of the subprocess or be able to send a signal
to bash to get it to interrupt its subprocess.
waitOutput() now uses monitor. We also handle sentinels
coming in the middle of output (but default at end should
still work well.)
We need to figure out how to specify the IP addresses for the
routed control network. For now I'm going back to 192.168.12x.y
Also changed controller params to use IP strings rather than
numbers. However, we still need to clarify what ControllerParams
is actually for.
Brandon Heller
Bob Lantz