when using "state: link", and particularly when using
"force: yes".
Symbolic link resolution can be expensive. In our case,
the symbolic links are legacy links to automounts, and
the "file" task was causing all of the legacy links to
be traversed and mounted on every host every time the
task executed, even when the links were correct and there
was nothing to do.
This change avoids the system calls that perform the
symbolic link resolution by taking advantage of the short
circuit behaviur of the boolean "and" operator. The code
behaviour is unchanged except that it no longer performs
unnecessary system calls.
As it turns out, this change is not sufficient to fully
solve the symbolic link resolution problem, as the "file"
module still performs a stat() at the end of execution to
provide the caller with information about the file.
However, this change is very simple, it will eliminate
unnecessary system calls in a number of use cases, and it
gets the "file" module closer to the desired end result.
Not all file-related modules consistently use "path" as the attribute to specify a single filename, some use "dest", others use "name". Most do have aliases for either "name" or "destfile".
This change makes "path" the default attribute for (single) file-related modules, but also adds "dest" and "name" as aliases, so that people can use a consistent way of attributing paths, but also to ensure backward compatibility with existing playbooks.
NOTE: The reason for changing this, is that it makes Ansible needlessly harder to use if you have to remember that e.g. the xattr module requires the name attribute, the lineinfile module requires a dest attribute, and the stat module requires a path attribute.
can be per run or per host, also aggregate or not
set_stats action plugin as reference implementation
added doc stub
display stats in calblack
made custom stats showing configurable
Sudoers is a great example to show how you can prevent shutting yourself
out. But SSHd is at least as important to avoid syntax errors causing a
lot of grieve. So I think it deserves a spot in this list :-)
- Adds the 'link' file_type for finding symbolic or hard links
- Use `os.lstat` instead of `os.stat` to prevent the following
of links when statting the file.
* Change example syntax on os_auth module
* Change example syntax on os_client_config module
* Change example syntax on os_image_facts module
* Change example syntax on os_networks_facts module
* Change example syntax on os_nova_flavor module
* Change example syntax on os_object module
* Change example syntax on os_server module
* Change example syntax on os_subnet_facts module
* Change example syntax on rax_files module
* Change example syntax on rax_files_objects module
* Change example syntax on mysql_db module
* Change example syntax on file module
* Change example syntax on uri module
* Change example syntax on cl_bond module
* Change example syntax on cl_bridge module
* Change example syntax on cl_img_install module
* Change example syntax on cl_interface module
* Change example syntax on cl_license module
* Change example syntax on cl_ports module
* Remove trailing colon
The new create option with the default value 'no' changes the
behavior from the previous Ansible releases. Change the default to
'yes' to create missing ini files by default.
Fixes: #5488
This fixes the behavior that the dest is directory,
when we set the "force: no" argument.
To be join the dest and the src's basename,
before checking the "force" argument.
In the description of the find module return value, the sample dict
has its key=value strings converted to key=value: None in the
web documentation. This commit updates the sample output to a 'real'
dict.
Minor additional edit in the description: "return list *of* files".
