saltstack/salt — pull request #9600 by terminalmage (2014-01-07 01:04:01+00:00)
Title: Some "DRY" cleanup in the file module

The get_{uid,gid,user,group,mode} functions duplicate a lot of work done
in file.stats. this commit changes file.stats slightly to support
getting uid/gid of broken symlinks (code that was in get_{uid,gid}), and
then uses file.stats to supply the uid, gid, etc. for the get_*
functions.

Additionally, the "follow_symlinks" behavior in file.stats is opposite
from everywhere else in the file module, so the default value for this
parameter has been changed to True, and refs to this function from the
file state has been manually passed as False to preserve backwards
compatibility.