file can't handle enforcing permissions on special devices

[jaymzh]

Description

file resource bails out on char, block, socket files, etc. - even if not context is specified.

However, a file resource is the logical way to enforce file ownership and permissions on such files. Cause they're files, because unix.

Chef Version

12.21.26

Platform Version

RHEL

Replication Case

chef-apply -e 'file "/dev/zero" do owner "root" end'

Client Output

File /dev/zero exists, but is a char device, set force_unlink to true to remove

[lamont-granquist]

isn't strictly necessary for this to go into 14.0 but i'm just putting it in that bucket because that's the one i'm going to start paying attention to, and otherwise i'll miss it.

[jaymzh]

@johnmccrae - is there a PR associated with this? I don't remember this getting fixed.