From: Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 21:36:05 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: nsscash: improve comments
X-Git-Tag: 0.1~67
X-Git-Url: https://ruderich.org/simon/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=13b90749eb1b3547bbfbb47fe142cb96a17234b5;p=nsscash%2Fnsscash.git

nsscash: improve comments
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diff --git a/file.go b/file.go
index 33d71c1..02bc767 100644
--- a/file.go
+++ b/file.go
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ import (
 )
 
 func handleFiles(cfg *Config, state *State) error {
+	// Split into fetch and deploy phase to prevent updates of only some
+	// files which might lead to inconsistent state; obviously this won't
+	// work during the deploy phase, but it helps if the web server fails
+	// to deliver some files
+
 	for i, f := range cfg.Files {
 		err := fetchFile(&cfg.Files[i], state)
 		if err != nil {
@@ -135,7 +140,8 @@ func deployFile(file *File) error {
 	defer os.Remove(f.Name())
 	defer f.Close()
 
-	// Apply permissions/user/group from the target file
+	// Apply permissions/user/group from the target file, use Stat instead
+	// of Lstat as only the target's permissions are relevant
 	stat, err := os.Stat(file.Path)
 	if err != nil {
 		// We do not create the path if it doesn't exist, because we
diff --git a/group.go b/group.go
index 4513758..0ad8671 100644
--- a/group.go
+++ b/group.go
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ type GroupKey struct {
 	Name    string
 	Passwd  string
 	Gid     uint64
-	Members string
+	Members string // "," separated
 }
 
 func toKey(g Group) GroupKey {
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ func toKey(g Group) GroupKey {
 }
 
 // ParseGroups parses a file in the format of /etc/group and returns all
-// entries as Group structs.
+// entries as slice of Group structs.
 func ParseGroups(r io.Reader) ([]Group, error) {
 	var res []Group
 
diff --git a/passwd.go b/passwd.go
index 90fed68..07a62d8 100644
--- a/passwd.go
+++ b/passwd.go
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ type Passwd struct {
 }
 
 // ParsePasswds parses a file in the format of /etc/passwd and returns all
-// entries as Passwd structs.
+// entries as slice of Passwd structs.
 func ParsePasswds(r io.Reader) ([]Passwd, error) {
 	var res []Passwd