ansible/test/integration/targets/file/tasks/link_rewrite.yml

- name: create temporary build directory
  tempfile:
    state: directory
    suffix: ansible_test_leave_links_alone_during_touch
  register: tempdir

- name: create file
  copy:
    mode: 0600
    content: "chicken"
    dest: "{{ tempdir.path }}/somefile"

- name: Create relative link
  file:
    src: somefile
    dest: "{{ tempdir.path }}/somelink"
    state: link

- stat:
    path: "{{ tempdir.path }}/somelink"
  register: link

- stat:
    path: "{{ tempdir.path }}/somefile"
  register: file

- assert:
    that:
    - "file.stat.mode == '0600'"
    - "link.stat.lnk_target == 'somefile'"

- file:
    path: "{{ tempdir.path }}/somelink"
    mode: 0644

- stat:
    path: "{{ tempdir.path }}/somelink"
  register: link

- stat:
    path: "{{ tempdir.path }}/somefile"
  register: file

- assert:
    that:
    - "file.stat.mode == '0644'"
    - "link.stat.lnk_target == 'somefile'"