infinite loop on minion

[Mrten]

This easy state throws the minion into an infinite loop:

#!mako|yaml

include:
  - machine.web.users

<%

out = salt['state.show_lowstate']()

root@svn:/home/mrten# pstree
init─┬─acpid
     ├─salt-minion───118*[{salt-minion}]

[basepi]

Hrm, that's odd. Thanks for the report!

[basepi]

I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to accomplish with this state, but trying to call a state function (state.show_lowstate) from a state is generally going to throw an infinite loop -- it tries to compile the state, calls the lowstate, which tries to compile the state, which calls the lowstate......

I don't think this is a bug, unless I'm missing something.

[Mrten]

I am trying to solve this without code duplication:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/salt-users/aLmfXsneyjU

Nevertheless; show_lowstate should at least try to detect that there is a state being compiled at the moment and then return false or something to prevent what basically amounts to a fork-bomb.

It could also try to return already collected states and could then be useful for my application.

[basepi]

Hrm, interesting. I agree that it would be good to restrict access there, though I'm not sure it will be easy to make the distinction as to whether we're compiling a state or another template.

I'll ask @thatch45 about it.