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Clarify the behaviour of file's src parameter with relative paths

Fixes #21401

Also sdd some more tests to validate file state=link creates a symlink
which points to the file we intended.
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Toshio Kuratomi 2018-04-20 12:39:01 -07:00
parent 8eaef34340
commit ce796bc34d
2 changed files with 30 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -53,8 +53,9 @@ options:
choices: [ absent, directory, file, hard, link, touch ]
src:
description:
- path of the file to link to (applies only to C(state=link) and C(state=hard)). Will accept absolute,
relative and nonexisting paths. Relative paths are not expanded.
- path of the file to link to (applies only to C(state=link) and C(state=hard)). Will accept
absolute, relative and nonexisting paths. Relative paths are relative to the file being
created (C(path)) which is how the UNIX command C(ln -s SRC DEST) treats relative paths.
recurse:
description:
- recursively set the specified file attributes (applies only to directories)

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@ -372,10 +372,36 @@
file: src=../sub1/file1 dest={{output_dir}}/sub2/link1 state=link
register: file20_result
- name: verify that the result was marked as changed
- name: Get stat info for the link
stat:
path: '{{ output_dir }}/sub2/link1'
follow: False
register: file20_link_stat
- name: Get stat info for the pointed to file
stat:
path: '{{ output_dir }}/sub2/link1'
follow: True
register: file20_links_dest_stat
- name: Get stat info for the file we intend to point to
stat:
path: '{{ output_dir }}/sub1/file1'
follow: False
register: file20_dest_stat
- debug: var=file20_dest_stat
- name: verify that the link was created correctly
assert:
that:
# file command reports it created something
- "file20_result.changed == true"
# file command created a link
- 'file20_link_stat["stat"]["islnk"]'
# Link points to the right path
- 'file20_link_stat["stat"]["lnk_target"] == "../sub1/file1"'
# The link target and the file we intended to link to have the same inode
- 'file20_links_dest_stat["stat"]["inode"] == file20_dest_stat["stat"]["inode"]'
- name: create soft link to relative directory
file: src=sub1 dest={{output_dir}}/sub1-link state=link