tools: ynl: handle broken pipe gracefully in CLI
authorDonald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
Thu, 8 May 2025 11:21:02 +0000 (12:21 +0100)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Fri, 9 May 2025 23:28:23 +0000 (16:28 -0700)
commit0df6932485a07f0fc44a3379038d5853cbbb505c
tree015ca478d168797f137b2e7bca1c39feb35e73a9
parent1b2900db0119c02e6445bb61ec3fba982d10cc8d
tools: ynl: handle broken pipe gracefully in CLI

When sending YNL CLI output into a pipe, closing the pipe causes a
BrokenPipeError. E.g. running the following and quitting less:

./tools/net/ynl/pyynl/cli.py --family rt-link --dump getlink | less
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/donaldh/net-next/./tools/net/ynl/pyynl/cli.py", line 160, in <module>
    main()
    ~~~~^^
  File "/home/donaldh/net-next/./tools/net/ynl/pyynl/cli.py", line 142, in main
    output(reply)
    ~~~~~~^^^^^^^
  File "/home/donaldh/net-next/./tools/net/ynl/pyynl/cli.py", line 97, in output
    pprint.PrettyPrinter().pprint(msg)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^
[...]
BrokenPipeError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

Consolidate the try block for ops and notifications, and gracefully
handle the BrokenPipeError by adding an exception handler to the
consolidated try block.

Signed-off-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250508112102.63539-1-donald.hunter@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
tools/net/ynl/pyynl/cli.py