Use the new forwarder2's Daemon implementation in device_forwarder.

build/android/pylib/android_commands.py

Index: build/android/pylib/android_commands.py
diff --git a/build/android/pylib/android_commands.py b/build/android/pylib/android_commands.py
index 65aab3c3333d6d3e43d1e793f5d15c9dec0f708e..af39437724992186e990da3cb5f0311a9f4193cb 100644
--- a/build/android/pylib/android_commands.py
+++ b/build/android/pylib/android_commands.py
@@ -466,6 +466,17 @@ class AndroidCommands(object):
       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.