writer.go

/*
Copyright 2015 The Kubernetes Authors.

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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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*/

package io

import (
	"bytes"
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"os"
	"os/exec"

	"github.com/golang/glog"
)

// Writer is an interface which allows to write data to a file.
type Writer interface {
	WriteFile(filename string, data []byte, perm os.FileMode) error
}

// StdWriter implements Writer interface and uses standard libraries
// for writing data to files.
type StdWriter struct {
}

func (writer *StdWriter) WriteFile(filename string, data []byte, perm os.FileMode) error {
	return ioutil.WriteFile(filename, data, perm)
}

// Alternative implementation of Writer interface that allows writing data to file
// using nsenter command.
// If a program (e.g. kubelet) runs in a container it may want to write data to
// a mounted device. Since in Docker, mount propagation mode is set to private,
// it will not see the mounted device in its own namespace. To work around this
// limitaion one has to first enter hosts namespace (by using 'nsenter') and only
// then write data.
type NsenterWriter struct {
}

// TODO: should take a writer, not []byte
func (writer *NsenterWriter) WriteFile(filename string, data []byte, perm os.FileMode) error {
	cmd := "nsenter"
	base_args := []string{
		"--mount=/rootfs/proc/1/ns/mnt",
		"--",
	}

	echo_args := append(base_args, "sh", "-c", fmt.Sprintf("cat > %s", filename))
	glog.V(5).Infof("Command to write data to file: %v %v", cmd, echo_args)
	command := exec.Command(cmd, echo_args...)
	command.Stdin = bytes.NewBuffer(data)
	outputBytes, err := command.CombinedOutput()
	if err != nil {
		glog.Errorf("Output from writing to %q: %v", filename, string(outputBytes))
		return err
	}

	chmod_args := append(base_args, "chmod", fmt.Sprintf("%o", perm), filename)
	glog.V(5).Infof("Command to change permissions to file: %v %v", cmd, chmod_args)
	outputBytes, err = exec.Command(cmd, chmod_args...).CombinedOutput()
	if err != nil {
		glog.Errorf("Output from chmod command: %v", string(outputBytes))
		return err
	}

	return nil
}