resolve inventory path on init

This allows meta refresh_inventory to work with relative paths
Added option to unfrackpath to not resolv symlinks
fixes #16857
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Brian Coca 2016-11-04 15:26:50 -04:00 committed by Brian Coca
parent 28dc527b2c
commit 8217c1c39c
2 changed files with 10 additions and 6 deletions

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@ -26,10 +26,9 @@ from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
__all__ = ['unfrackpath', 'makedirs_safe']
def unfrackpath(path):
def unfrackpath(path, follow=True):
'''
Returns a path that is free of symlinks, environment
variables, relative path traversals and symbols (~)
Returns a path that is free of symlinks (if follow=True), environment variables, relative path traversals and symbols (~)
:arg path: A byte or text string representing a path to be canonicalized
:raises UnicodeDecodeError: If the canonicalized version of the path
@ -41,9 +40,13 @@ def unfrackpath(path):
example::
'$HOME/../../var/mail' becomes '/var/spool/mail'
'''
canonical_path = os.path.normpath(os.path.realpath(os.path.expanduser(os.path.expandvars(to_bytes(path, errors='surrogate_or_strict')))))
return to_text(canonical_path, errors='surrogate_or_strict')
if follow:
final_path = os.path.normpath(os.path.realpath(os.path.expanduser(os.path.expandvars(to_bytes(path, errors='surrogate_or_strict')))))
else:
final_path = os.path.normpath(os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(os.path.expandvars(to_bytes(path, errors='surrogate_or_strict')))))
return to_text(final_path, errors='surrogate_or_strict')
def makedirs_safe(path, mode=None):
'''Safe way to create dirs in muliprocess/thread environments.