Re: Review Request 30609: Added a function that reports file size, not following links.

[Bernd Mathiske <be...@mesosphere.io>]

> On April 29, 2015, 4:48 p.m., Ben Mahler wrote:
> > 3rdparty/libprocess/3rdparty/stout/include/stout/os/stat.hpp, lines 61-79
> > <https://reviews.apache.org/r/30609/diff/5/?file=891427#file891427line61>
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> >     If we add `followSymlinks` here, it seems that one could add `followSymlinks` on all of the `stat` related methods, but that seems like it would be a bit of a mess?
> >     
> >     I'm curious whether we should just expose two simple functions to force the callers to think about following links whenever they want file statistics:
> >     
> >     ```
> >     Try<Stat> stat(const std::string& path);
> >     Try<Stat> lstat(const std::string& path);
> >     ```
> >     
> >     Otherwise, do we want 1 stout function per `stat` struct member? For each function, are we going to have a `followSymlinks` boolean? Just thinking of how to provide a complete and consistent interface that is simple to reason about.
> 
> Bernd Mathiske wrote:
>     Yes, adding followSymlinks to existing functions could be a bit of a mess, because we would end up with different defaults, since stat and lstat are not being used consistently at the moment.
>     
>     But adding the two wrapper functions stat and lstat without removing all the others and rewriting all the call sites would be a bit of a mess, too. 
>     
>     Suggestions?
>     
>     Bernd

@bmahler, how about this: I try adding the followLinks Parameter to all other functions that already exist where appropriate and try to come up with a set of functions that is "orderly", including patching any call sites if necessary (hopefully none or few). If the latter quality fails to emerge or for any other reason you still prefer functions that return structs, I switch to that. Is this worth a try?


- Bernd


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On April 30, 2015, 1:38 p.m., Bernd Mathiske wrote:
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> (Updated April 30, 2015, 1:38 p.m.)
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> Review request for mesos, Adam B, Benjamin Hindman, Till Toenshoff, and Timothy Chen.
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> Bugs: MESOS-2072
>     https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-2072
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> Repository: mesos
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> Description
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> This returns a file's size (on UNIXes as reported by lstat(), not stat()). It is desired that in case of a link, the size of the link, not the size of the referenced file, is returned.
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> Diffs
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>   3rdparty/libprocess/3rdparty/stout/include/stout/os/stat.hpp 270c4c848fc0460dcdb9a90823281d735f4550c2 
>   3rdparty/libprocess/3rdparty/stout/tests/os_tests.cpp 343f95be7f316170b37c9358627f3c2090f0e29e 
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> Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/30609/diff/
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> Testing
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> Wrote a simple test that creates a file and tests its size, and also checks if a non-existing file yields an error.
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> Thanks,
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> Bernd Mathiske
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