From f7fafa8c1602ed075f2dc0e8ec169fe2b2dd8210 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Toshio Kuratomi <toshio@fedoraproject.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:04:44 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Cannot readlink() on a hard link

---
 lib/ansible/modules/files/file.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/files/file.py b/lib/ansible/modules/files/file.py
index be7b05aaf52..7aa5e45d7bc 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/files/file.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/files/file.py
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ def main():
         src = os.path.expanduser(src)
     else:
         if state in ['link','hard']:
-            if follow:
+            if follow and state == 'link':
                 # use the current target of the link as the source
                 src = os.readlink(path)
             else: