Double check whether the parent directory really exists using stat()

Fixes #7760
reviewable/pr18780/r1
James Cammarata 11 years ago
parent bdf84b4e73
commit abe3655cec

@ -190,6 +190,15 @@ def main():
md5sum_dest = module.md5(dest)
else:
if not os.path.exists(os.path.dirname(dest)):
try:
# os.path.exists() can return false in some
# circumstances where the directory does not have
# the execute bit for the current user set, in
# which case the stat() call will raise an OSError
os.stat(os.path.dirname(dest))
except OSError, e:
if "permission denied" in str(e).lower():
module.fail_json(msg="Destination directory %s is not accessible" % (os.path.dirname(dest)))
module.fail_json(msg="Destination directory %s does not exist" % (os.path.dirname(dest)))
if not os.access(os.path.dirname(dest), os.W_OK):
module.fail_json(msg="Destination %s not writable" % (os.path.dirname(dest)))

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