Use the new forwarder2's Daemon implementation in device_forwarder.

build/android/pylib/android_commands.py

 # Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 """Provides an interface to communicate with the device via the adb command.
 
 Assumes adb binary is currently on system path.
 """
 
 import collections
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     logging.info('>>> $' + command)
     if "'" in command: logging.warning(command + " contains ' quotes")
     result = self._adb.SendShellCommand(
         "'%s'" % command, timeout_time).splitlines()
     if ['error: device not found'] == result:
       raise errors.DeviceUnresponsiveError('device not found')
     if log_result:
       logging.info('\n>>> '.join(result))
     return result
 
+  def GetShellCommandStatusAndOutput(self, command, timeout_time=20,
+                                     log_result=False):
+    """See RunShellCommand() above.
+
+    Returns:
+      The tuple (exit code, list of output lines).
+    """
+    lines = self.RunShellCommand(
+        command + '; echo $?', timeout_time, log_result)
+    return (int(lines[-1]), lines[:len(lines) - 2])

[bulach, 2012/11/15 02:08:19]

nit: lines[:-1], cute isn't it? :)

[Philippe, 2012/11/15 09:56:20]

Indeed :)

+
   def KillAll(self, process):
     """Android version of killall, connected via adb.
 
     Args:
       process: name of the process to kill off
 
     Returns:
       the number of processes killed
     """
     pids = self.ExtractPid(process)
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   """
   def __init__(self, output):
     self._output = output
 
   def write(self, data):
     data = data.replace('\r\r\n', '\n')
     self._output.write(data)
 
   def flush(self):
     self._output.flush()