Issue #13126 has been updated by Kelsey Hightower.

Status changed from In Topic Branch Pending Review to Code Insufficient


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Bug #13126: Exec's 'creates' attribute follows symlinks and treats broken links 
as missing files
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13126#change-67081

Author: Peter Bukowinski
Status: Code Insufficient
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: exec
Target version: 2.7.x
Affected Puppet version: 
Keywords: 
Branch: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/588


When an `exec` resource's `creates` attribute points to a broken symlink, the 
target is treated as missing and does not prevent the exec block from running. 
The following code will succeed on the first run, then fail on subsequent runs 
because it's trying to recreate an existing symlink.

<pre>
puppet apply -e 'exec { "/bin/ln -s /tmp/no.file.here /tmp/test.link": creates 
=> "/tmp/test.link" }'
</pre>

If this is the intended behavior, I'd like to understand the reasoning behind 
it.


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