Issue #8311 has been reported by tgeeky -.
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Bug #8311: file { mode => .. } -- investigation into strings, octal, etc --
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/8311
Author: tgeeky -
Status: Investigating
Priority: Normal
Assignee: tgeeky -
Category: file
Target version: 2.7.x
Affected Puppet version: 2.7.1
Keywords: file, mode, octal
Branch:
This ticket is meant as an investigation into general problems with the
following syntax:
file { '/some/file/or/directory':
mode => _____
}
In theory, any of the following could be entered where ____ is:
* 0
* 1
* 000000000
* 0123
* 1365
* '0'
* '0000'
* '0777'
* "0"
* "0123"
* "644"
* "- - - - - - - - - -"
* "- r w S r w S r w -"
* "8000"
* "81ff"
For instance, what should be valid here? How should puppet store (internally)
the information you supply? What should happen when invalid input is supplied?
Because Ruby is a dynamically typed language ****and**** because some joker
decided that prefixing a number with a zero specifies an octal number, Puppet
is left with some lingering bugs; and, even when a decision on syntax
****is**** made, backwards compatibility is not an easy task.
This bug report was spurred on by (but ****is not**** identical to) my other
[[bug report#8255]](http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/8255). That bug is
just for the defaults (which is a puppet system also need of some TLC).
[[This pastie]](http://pastie.org/2181013) represents my first attack at
actually figuring out what's going on. It is nowhere near sufficient, and it's
not in test form (since I don't know how to write tests yet).
There are probably several bugs that are caused by this inconsistency. And
directories are not immune, either.
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