Older versions of Python do not have ctypes as a default installed
package. This patch puts the 'import ctypes' statement inside a try
statement.
This fixes a bug introduced by commit 8396f (timeval: Use monotonic
time in OVS Python timeval library).
Signed-off-by: Ryan Wilson <wryan@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
Python's time.time() function uses the system wall clock. However,
if NTP resets the wall clock to be a time in the past, then this
causes any applications that poll block based on time, such as
ovs-xapi-sync, to poll block indefinitely since the time is
unexpectedly negative.
This patch fixes the issue by using time.monotonic() if Python's
version >= 3.3. Otherwise, the timeval module calls out to the
librt C shared library and uses the clock_gettime function with
CLOCK_MONOTONIC.
Note this is only enabled on Linux-based platforms. This has been
tested on Ubuntu 12.04 and Redhat 6.4.
Bug #1189434
Signed-off-by: Ryan Wilson <wryan@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com>
Replaced all instances of Nicira Networks(, Inc) to Nicira, Inc.
Feature #10593
Signed-off-by: Raju Subramanian <rsubramanian@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
This patch does minor style cleanups to the code in the python and
tests directory. There's other code floating around that could use
similar treatment, but updating it is not convenient at the moment.
These initial bindings pass a few hundred of the corresponding tests
for C implementations of various bits of the Open vSwitch library API.
The poorest part of them is actually the Python IDL interface in
ovs.db.idl, which has not received enough attention yet. It appears
to work, but it doesn't yet support writes (transactions) and it is
difficult to use. I hope to improve it as it becomes clear what
semantics Python applications actually want from an IDL.
