Jira (PUP-2156) file provider silent behaviour change for "mode"

[Per Cederqvist (JIRA)]

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Per Cederqvist commented on an issue   Re: file provider silent behaviour change for "mode" One thought here that Andy Parker brought up is the distinction between the mode (octal) 777, and the mode 0777, since the first does not change the higher order bits, but the second does. I cannot reproduce the above claim: $ puppet apply -e 'file { "/tmp/x": ensure => file, mode => "1777" }'; ls -l /tmp/x [...] Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/File[/tmp/x]/ensure: created [...] -rwxrwxrwt 1 ceder ceder 0 2014-04-08 22:14 /tmp/x $ puppet apply -e 'file { "/tmp/x": ensure => file, mode => "777" }'; ls -l /tmp/x [...] Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/File[/tmp/x]/mode: mode changed '1777' to '0777' [...] -rwxrwxrwx 1 ceder ceder 0 2014-04-08 22:14 /tmp/x As I expected, mode "777" will change the high-order bits. I've tested the above example with both Puppet 3.4.3 and 3.5.0, with both --parser future and the traditional parser, and all four combinations produce the same result. Requiring the mode argument to be a string in Puppet 4 seems like a very good idea to me. It should probably be an error if a numeric string is anything but 4 or 5 characters long. It isn't obvious to me if 01777 should be written "1777" or "01777"; I think it might make sense to accept both forms. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-2156 file provider silent behaviour change for "mode" The type reference for file in Puppet 0.25.5 said: {noformat} file { '/some/dir':   mode => 644,   recurse => true, } {noformat} Ref: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/0.25.5/type.html#file I believe that there are many Puppet manifests out there that still writes file mode as 3-digit numbers and expect them to be interpreted as octal. ... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.