from __future__ import print_function import ctypes api = ctypes.CDLL("libgfapi.so", mode=ctypes.RTLD_GLOBAL) api.glfs_ipc.argtypes = [ ctypes.c_void_p, ctypes.c_int, ctypes.c_void_p, ctypes.c_void_p ] api.glfs_ipc.restype = ctypes.c_int def do_ipc (host, volume): fs = api.glfs_new(volume) #api.glfs_set_logging(fs, "/dev/stderr", 7) api.glfs_set_volfile_server(fs, "tcp", host, 24007) api.glfs_init(fs) ret = api.glfs_ipc(fs, 1470369258, 0, 0) api.glfs_fini(fs) return ret if __name__ == "__main__": import sys try: res = do_ipc(*sys.argv[1:3]) print(res) except: print("IPC failed (volume not started?)")