except:
err("Resource spec '%s' contains no tap subtype" % resource)
- import os
- if typ in ["phy", "tap"]:
+ if typ in ["phy"]:
if not resfile.startswith("/"):
resfile = "/dev/" + resfile
if mustexist:
- stats = os.lstat(resfile)
- if stat.S_ISLNK(stats[stat.ST_MODE]):
- resolved = os.readlink(resfile)
- if resolved[0] != "/":
- resfile = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(resfile), resolved)
- resfile = os.path.abspath(resfile)
- else:
- resfile = resolved
+ resfile = os.path.realpath(resfile)
+ try:
stats = os.lstat(resfile)
- if not (stat.S_ISBLK(stats[stat.ST_MODE])):
+ if not (stat.S_ISBLK(stats[stat.ST_MODE])):
+ err("Invalid resource")
+ except:
err("Invalid resource")
if typ in [ "file", "tap" ]:
- if mustexist:
- stats = os.lstat(resfile)
- if stat.S_ISLNK(stats[stat.ST_MODE]):
- resfile = os.readlink(resfile)
- stats = os.lstat(resfile)
- if not stat.S_ISREG(stats[stat.ST_MODE]):
- err("Invalid resource")
+ resfile = os.path.realpath(resfile)
+ if mustexist and not os.path.isfile(resfile):
+ err("Invalid resource")
- #file: resources must specified with absolute path
+ #file: resources must be specified with absolute path
#vlan resources don't start with '/'
if typ != "vlan":
if (not resfile.startswith("/")) or \