[MNG-2399] file size check on pom.xml (or thing specified by --file opt) should only apply to regular files (patch attached)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.4
• Component/s: Command Line, General
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Denis Anisimov
• Created: 21/Jun/06 10:46
• Updated: 05/Apr/15 14:53
• Resolved: 31/May/07 20:58

Description

The file size check in maven-core/.../org/apache/maven/DefaultMaven.java is applied too aggressively. In particular, it should only be applied to regular files; when reading from a unix named pipe (probably other platform-specific devices, too) we may not be able to determine the file size prior to reading the data.

The real-world motiviation from this is the attached 'mvn-get-plugin' bash script, which wants to pipe a dummy pom.xml file to mvn on stdin (by specifying /dev/stdin as the argument to the mvn --file command line option).

Once I submit this issue and have the issue number, I'll attach two patches, one against the maven svn trunk, and one against the maven-2.0.4 tag.