file.directory needs a check_cmd

[af85]

Description of Issue/Question

I am trying to manage the permissions and file/dir ownerships of a web server directory. This directory is being constantly updated by the web app (session data, tmp data, etc). When salt runs, and recursively updates the permissions, it complains that some files don't exist, because they were temporary and have been removed in the middle of the salt run.

Can we get a check_cmd options for file.directory?
I'd like to do something like the following:

update-webapp-dir-permissions:
  file.directory:
    - user: {{ myapp.user }}
    - group: {{ myapp.group }}
    - recurse:
      - user
      - group
    - names:
      - {{ myapp.prefix }}/logs
      - {{ myapp.prefix }}/temp
      - {{ myapp.prefix }}/work
      - {{ myapp.datadir }}
    - check_cmd: /bin/true

Setup

See above.

Steps to Reproduce Issue

1. Create directory /var/myapp/
2. Create some script that will generate/delete mass amounts of files to /var/myapp/
3. Run a file.directory with recurse on the directory while the script (2) is running:

update-webapp-dir-permissions:
  file.directory:
    - name: /var/myapp
    - user: root
    - group: root
    - recurse:
      - user
      - group

Versions Report

salt --versions-report

Salt Version:
Salt: 2018.3.3

Dependency Versions:
cffi: Not Installed
cherrypy: Not Installed
dateutil: 1.5
docker-py: Not Installed
gitdb: Not Installed
gitpython: Not Installed
ioflo: Not Installed
Jinja2: 2.7.2
libgit2: Not Installed
libnacl: Not Installed
M2Crypto: 0.28.2
Mako: Not Installed
msgpack-pure: Not Installed
msgpack-python: 0.5.6
mysql-python: Not Installed
pycparser: Not Installed
pycrypto: 2.6.1
pycryptodome: Not Installed
pygit2: Not Installed
Python: 2.7.5 (default, Apr 11 2018, 07:36:10)
python-gnupg: Not Installed
PyYAML: 3.11
PyZMQ: 15.3.0
RAET: Not Installed
smmap: Not Installed
timelib: Not Installed
Tornado: 4.2.1
ZMQ: 4.1.4

System Versions:
dist: centos 7.5.1804 Core
locale: UTF-8
machine: x86_64
release: 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64
system: Linux
version: CentOS Linux 7.5.1804 Core

[Akm0d]

Related to #52173

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