Jira (FACT-2055) Facter fails if its working directory does not exist

[James Ralston (JIRA)]

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James Ralston commented on FACT-2055   Re: Facter fails if its working directory does not exist The problem is that although facter does not call boost::filesystem::current_path directly (at least as far as I can tell), something else it calls does (most likely, another boost library call), and getcwd() fails with ENOENT if the cwd has been unlinked. I'll play devil's advocate here: is this a bug with Puppet, or a feature of Unix? Puppet is not the only program that will fail if its cwd is unlinked. A great many number of standard Unix utilities will throw errors (and potentially die / fail to function) if the cwd does not exist. If facter died or produced errors if the cwd were inaccessible, I would assert that is a bug with facter. (See PUP-9997 for the rationale there.) But facter bombing out if its cwd is unlinked? I'd argue the most reasonable response to that might simply be the punchline to the old "doctor, it hurts when I move my arm this way" joke: then don't do that. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.7.1#77002-sha1:e75ca93) -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-bugs/JIRA.327976.1570129217000.134972.1570568160103%40Atlassian.JIRA.