Module util

Runs a command.

Locale is reset to C to make parsing error messages possible.

Parameters:

• stdin (string) - input to provide to the process on stdin. If None, process' stdin will be attached to /dev/null
• ignore_fail (boolean) - If True, a non-zero exit code from the command will not cause an exception to be raised.
• env (dict) - Dictionary of extra environment variables to set in the new process

Returns: string

string containing the stdout of the process

Change ownership of file to $SUDO_USER.

Parameters:

• path (string) - file or directory to give to $SUDO_USER

Goes through files and fixes their ownership of them.

Parameters:

• files (list) - files whose ownership should be fixed up (currently simply calls give_to_caller)