community.general/changelogs/fragments/file-disallow-src.yaml

---
bugfixes:
- file module - The file module allowed the user to specify src as a parameter
  when state was not link or hard.  This is documented as only applying to
  state=link or state=hard but in previous Ansible, this could have an effect
  in rare cornercases.  For instance, "ansible -m file -a 'state=directory
  path=/tmp src=/var/lib'" would create /tmp/lib.  This has been disabled and
  a warning emitted (will change to an error in Ansible-2.10).
More file refactoring (#40114) * Set src in the state functions rather than the toplevel A good API should only require passing one version of a piece of data around so do that for src * Move the rewriting of path into additional_parameter_handling When the path is a directory we can rewrite the path to be a file inside of the directory * Emit a warning when src is used with a state where it should be ignored 2018-05-16 19:41:11 +02:00			`---`
			`bugfixes:`
			`- file module - The file module allowed the user to specify src as a parameter`
			`when state was not link or hard. This is documented as only applying to`
			`state=link or state=hard but in previous Ansible, this could have an effect`
			`in rare cornercases. For instance, "ansible -m file -a 'state=directory`
			`path=/tmp src=/var/lib'" would create /tmp/lib. This has been disabled and`
			`a warning emitted (will change to an error in Ansible-2.10).`