Only inspect file attribute if lsattr(1) is installed #43746
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What does this PR do?
lsattr
/chattr
is not installed on many Unix-like platforms by default, including *BSD, Solaris, and minimal Linux distributions such as Alpine. Skip attribute checks iflsattr
is not found.Previous Behavior
file.check_perms
and anything that invokes it such asstate.highstate
fails:New Behavior
An error calling
chattr
is only raised if attributes were specifiedTests written?
No, but tested on OpenBSD 6.1 and CentOS 7.3. This is Cent7: