Xena Series Release Notes

2.6.0

New Features

• Add timeout as a parameter to PrivContext and add entrypoint_with_timeout decorator to cover the issues with commands which take random time to finish. PrivsepTimeout is raised if a timeout is reached.

  Warning: The daemon (the root process) task won’t stop when the timeout is reached. That means we’ll have fewer available threads if the related thread never finishes.

• PrivContext accepts a new string parameter called logger_name to define the logger we want to use for the daemon logs of this context.

  By default all contexts use oslo_privsep.daemon, but in some cases, we may need finer-grained log levels, for example, Nova running in debug mode could log its own privsep calls on INFO level regardless, but leave all libraries’ privsep calls, such as os-brick’s, to be logged in the normal DEBUG level.

  See bug 1922052.