From 0319bb210673b8acb2bb7a2f08e6ab26a39f1175 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Holloway <github@bholloway.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 14:02:28 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] BREAKING (maybe) remove additional check that decoded source
 file exists

---
 lib/process/decode-sources-with.js | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/process/decode-sources-with.js b/lib/process/decode-sources-with.js
index 6ed0cb8..15ea0a9 100644
--- a/lib/process/decode-sources-with.js
+++ b/lib/process/decode-sources-with.js
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 'use strict';
 
-var fs = require('fs');
-
 var getFieldAsFn = require('./get-field-as-fn');
 
 /**
@@ -46,11 +44,7 @@ function decodeSourcesWith(codecs, mustDecode) {
         }
         // non-string implies error
         if (typeof decoded !== 'string') {
-          return getNamedError('Decoder returned a truthy value but it is not a string file path:\n' + decoded);
-        }
-        // non-existant file implies error
-        else if (!fs.existsSync(decoded) || !fs.statSync(decoded).isFile()) {
-          return getNamedError('Cannot find file at absolute path:\n' + decoded);
+          return getNamedError('Decoder returned a truthy value but it is not a string:\n' + decoded);
         }
         // otherwise success
         else {