#! /usr/bin/env python | |
# 3) System Test | |
# | |
# Given a list of directories, report any bogus symbolic links contained | |
# anywhere in those subtrees. A bogus symbolic link is one that cannot | |
# be resolved because it points to a nonexistent or otherwise | |
# unresolvable file. Do *not* use an external find executable. | |
# Directories may be very very deep. Print a warning immediately if the | |
# system you're running on doesn't support symbolic links. | |
# This implementation: | |
# - takes one optional argument, using the current directory as default | |
# - uses chdir to increase performance | |
# - sorts the names per directory | |
# - prints output lines of the form "path1 -> path2" as it goes | |
# - prints error messages about directories it can't list or chdir into | |
import os | |
import sys | |
from stat import * | |
def main(): | |
try: | |
# Note: can't test for presence of lstat -- it's always there | |
dummy = os.readlink | |
except AttributeError: | |
print "This system doesn't have symbolic links" | |
sys.exit(0) | |
if sys.argv[1:]: | |
prefix = sys.argv[1] | |
else: | |
prefix = '' | |
if prefix: | |
os.chdir(prefix) | |
if prefix[-1:] != '/': prefix = prefix + '/' | |
reportboguslinks(prefix) | |
else: | |
reportboguslinks('') | |
def reportboguslinks(prefix): | |
try: | |
names = os.listdir('.') | |
except os.error, msg: | |
print "%s%s: can't list: %s" % (prefix, '.', msg) | |
return | |
names.sort() | |
for name in names: | |
if name == os.curdir or name == os.pardir: | |
continue | |
try: | |
mode = os.lstat(name)[ST_MODE] | |
except os.error: | |
print "%s%s: can't stat: %s" % (prefix, name, msg) | |
continue | |
if S_ISLNK(mode): | |
try: | |
os.stat(name) | |
except os.error: | |
print "%s%s -> %s" % \ | |
(prefix, name, os.readlink(name)) | |
elif S_ISDIR(mode): | |
try: | |
os.chdir(name) | |
except os.error, msg: | |
print "%s%s: can't chdir: %s" % \ | |
(prefix, name, msg) | |
continue | |
try: | |
reportboguslinks(prefix + name + '/') | |
finally: | |
os.chdir('..') | |
main() |