commit e5b6eb9a8c98e4f5e103572239e537310d810fd7

Author: Hairong Kuang <hairong@ucdev21.inktomisearch.com>
Date:   Fri Feb 26 22:44:30 2010 +0000

    HADOOP:6569 from http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12437260/optimizeCat-yahoo.patch
    
    +++ b/YAHOO-CHANGES.txt
    +    HADOOP-6569. FsShell#cat should avoid calling unnecessary getFileStatus
    +    before opening a file to read. (hairong)
    +


git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/common/branches/branch-0.20-security-patches@1077232 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

src/core/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FsShell.java

@@ -346,9 +346,6 @@ public class FsShell extends Configured implements Tool {
     new DelayedExceptionThrowing() {
       @Override
       void process(Path p, FileSystem srcFs) throws IOException {
-        if (srcFs.getFileStatus(p).isDir()) {
-          throw new IOException("Source must be a file.");
-        }
         printToStdout(srcFs.open(p));
       }
     }.globAndProcess(srcPattern, getSrcFileSystem(srcPattern, verifyChecksum));