- For both shellprocess and contextualprocess, add a top-level key
"timeout" that defaults to 10 seconds (which it already did).
- Allows setting "global" timeout for command-lists, while still
allowing individual timeouts per-command.
- Setting timeout per global variable in contextualprocess is not
supported; that would restrict the possible space of comparisions,
while not supporting a global setting timeout seems reasonable enough.
Use instances if you need wildly variable timeouts and don't want to
set them individually.
- Move CommandList so it can be used from more modules than
just ShellProcess
- Allow a CommandList to run itself. This centralizes
code for executing one or more commands and simplifies
the ShellProcess module.
Various small cleanups:
- mention instance id in log message
- code formatting / style
- Also allow a single string instead of a list
- Add count() method to CommandList
- Drop over-engineering, add more logging
- Expand tests with some more examples
This is basically dummyprocess, except with an expanded configuration
interface so you can run 1 or more shell commands in the live
or target system with a suitable configuration file and instance
of shellprocess in settings.conf.
It can replace downstream modules that implement their own
process modules with a command, by an instance of shellprocess.
