Merge branch 'next'

* next: (39 commits)
  (#5908) Add support for new update-rc.d disable API
  (#6830) Fix tests that depended on special inherited behavior
  (#6830) Fix overly stubbed tests
  (#6830) Fix instance_variables now comes back as symbols
  (#6830) Fix badly stubbed Time object in test
  (#6830) Fix MD5 handling to work with Ruby 1.9
  (#6830) Fix File class scoping
  (#6830) Handle case where array is actually a string
  (#6830) Fix case where instance_variables returns symbols in Ruby 1.9
  (#6862) Add a default subject for the mail_patches rake task
  Fixed #6256 - Creation of rrd directory.
  (#6855) ResourceType#search now accepts a regex
  (#5477) Allow watch_file to watch non-existent files, especially site.pp
  (#5477) Allow watch_file to watch non-existent files, especially site.pp
  Fixing #6851 - ResourceType#find/search loads types
  Fixing Module#path detection
  Fixed #6850 - Clean up ResourceType#to_pson
  (#6830) Fix stat method calls to not use an unneeded argument
  (#4576) Raise an error when a node is classified into a non-existent class
  Update CHANGELOG for 2.6.7
  ...

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/lib/puppet/util/loadedfile.rb b/lib/puppet/util/loadedfile.rb
index 735dba459..d2f5d0923 100755
--- a/lib/puppet/util/loadedfile.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/util/loadedfile.rb
@@ -34,10 +34,6 @@ module Puppet
     # Create the file.  Must be passed the file path.
     def initialize(file)
       @file = file
-      unless FileTest.exists?(@file)
-        raise Puppet::NoSuchFile,
-          "Can not use a non-existent file for parsing"
-      end
       @statted = 0
       @stamp = nil
       @tstamp = stamp
@@ -50,7 +46,7 @@ module Puppet
         @statted = Time.now.to_i
         begin
           @stamp = File.stat(@file).ctime
-        rescue Errno::ENOENT
+        rescue Errno::ENOENT, Errno::ENOTDIR
           @stamp = Time.now
         end
       end