> t...@herc:~ $ mkdir tmp; cat tmp; echo $?
> 0
>
> This is consistent with the rest of the operating system,
> ans as such not a bug, unless SUSv4 were to specifiy otherwise.
FYI, In Debian Linux the cat(1) behaves in standards compliant way[1]:
$ cat /tmp
cat: /tmp: Is a directory
$ echo $?
1
It would be helpful to report this cat(1) bug to the OS you had used for
testing.
[1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/cat.html
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