1843380 - [mozprocess] Add a simple subprocess wrapper for the most common mozprocess use case

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Testing :: Mozbase, enhancement)

Description

[Geoff Brown [:gbrown]]

In bug 1839262 I replaced mozprocess with subprocess, but also needed a few dozen lines of code for:

• convenient output handling
• process timeout
• output timeout.

Looking ahead at other mozprocess uses, this seems like a common pattern; let's add a new function to mozprocess that relies only on subprocess and core python (no ProcessHandler or os-specific code) to

• execute a process
• collect output
• wait for completion
• break and notify if the process is still running after <proc-timeout> seconds
• break and notify if no new output is seen after <output-timeout> seconds.

Comment 1

[Geoff Brown [:gbrown]]

Attachment: Bug 1843380 - Implement mozprocess.run_and_wait

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/4c688696d201
Implement mozprocess.run_and_wait r=hneiva

Comment 3

[Natalia Csoregi [:nataliaCs]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/4c688696d201