Werk #15605: mk_filestats: Improve Handling of non-UTF-8 file paths

Component

Checks & agents

Title

mk_filestats: Improve Handling of non-UTF-8 file paths

Date

Apr 18, 2023

Level

Trivial Change

Class

Bug Fix

Compatibility

Compatible - no manual interaction needed

Checkmk versions & editions

2.3.0b1	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.2.0p9	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
2.1.0p33	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

Previously, the agent plugin mk_filestats.py would show an error such as

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xc4 in position 42: invalid continuation byte

if it encountered any file, whose file path cannot be encoded to UTF-8. With this werk, the plugin no longer crashes. Any non-UTF-8 sequence of bytes is replaced with U+FFFD. In particular, this affects the filters and grouping.

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