The parameters 'diff_peek' and 'validate' are not expected to be used
by users. They are internal. To make it clear, this change adds the
comments 'Internal use only' to each of those definitions to make
it clear that they are actually used, just not by end-users.
The 'diff_peek' option isn't documented at all, and provides a
rudimentary check that the content isn't binary. Documentation is
added to explain the option.
The 'validate' option has a declaration, but isn't implemented.
Therefore it may as well be removed from the module.
Specifically, the stat module now has a checksum_algorithm parameter.
This lets the module utilize one of the hash algorithms available on the host
to return the checksum of the file.
This change is backwards compatible. The checksum_algorithm defaults to
sha1 and still returns its result to the stat.checksum property.
An attempt to make clear how privilege escalation works with respect to the src/source host and dest/destination host. One existing note was incorporated into three new ones, iterating each.
It is not documented in [the Ansible doc page][1] nor
[the BSD setfacl man entry][2] (which means it might not be compatible
with BSD) so removing it does not break the API.
On the other hand, it does not conform with POSIX 1003.1e DRAFT
STANDARD 17 according to the [Linux setfacl man entry][3] so safer to
remove.
Finally, the most important reason: in non POSIX 1003.e mode, only ACL
entries without the permissions field are accepted, so having an
optional field here is very much error-prone.
[1]: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/acl_module.html
[2]: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?format=html&query=setfacl(1)
[3]: http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/setfacl1.html
- Make build_entry compatible with Python 2.4
- Re-add missing warning/comment that was forgotten while refactoring
- Replace `all()` with a good ol' for-loop Python 2.4 compatibility
- Make a condition check more explicit (when `state` is `query`)
- Make sure this module can only be run with on a Linux distribution
- Add a note about Linux-only support in the documentation
- Set the version in which recursive support was added, 2.0
