Matt,
I've given this some thought and I think there is nothing
particularly wrong with cfengine's behaviour. However, the
example is contrived and I would advise against this kind
of thing. I would need to see evidence of something wrong
in a different example that I could recommend to someone.
M
Matt Richards wrote:
> I am not even sure how to describe this one. I have included a test
> case below. What is happening is that every other time it is run,
> "foo" is added. So, half the time it is added, the other half it is
> not. It seems like it somehow knows that foo was in /tmp/test at one
> point, even though it was removed.
>
> Output (from the report output):
>
> 1st run (correct, foo was added):
> cf3 R: array 0
> cf3 R: indices $(indices)
>
> 2nd run (somehow foo is in there, but foo ends up not being added):
> cf3 R: array 1
> cf3 R: indices foo
>
> 3rd run (now it is gone again, and foo is added):
> cf3 R: array 0
> cf3 R: indices $(indices)
>
> wash, rinse, repeat....
>
> ###
>
> body common control {
>
> bundlesequence => { "test","run" };
> }
>
> ###
>
> bundle agent test {
> files:
>
> "/tmp/test"
> create => "true",
> edit_line => remove_all;
>
> }
>
> ###
> bundle edit_line remove_all {
>
> delete_lines:
> ".*";
> }
>
> ###
> bundle agent run {
>
> vars:
> "array" int => readstringarray("test","/tmp/test","#[^\n]*",":",50,40000);
> "indices" slist => getindices("test");
>
> classes:
> "not_found" expression => islessthan("$(array)",1);
>
> files:
> not_found::
> "/tmp/test"
> edit_line => add_line("foo");
>
> reports:
> Yr2009::
> "array $(array)";
> "indices $(indices)";
>
> }
>
> ###
>
> bundle edit_line add_line(x) {
>
> insert_lines:
> "$(x)";
> }
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