`expliot.utils`¶

Utilities for EXPLIoT.

Submodules¶

The base class for any commandline tool that we need to instantiate

class expliot.utils.Tool(path, default_args='')¶

The base class for any commandline tool that we need to instantiate and execute.

run(args, timeout=None)¶

Run the command as a child with the specified arguments

Args:

args(str): The arguments to be supplied to the command. timeout(int): The timeout in seconds while waiting

for the output. Default is None. For details check subprocess.Popen() timeout argument.

Returns:

tuple of bytes: Tuple of standard output and standard error: (stdout,stderr). It returns bytes because encoding, error, text arguments of Popen are not specified.

Raises:

FileNotFoundError: In case the tool path/name cannot be found or: executed. This is actually raised by subprocess.Popen