Re: master 9dc306b1: Improve reporting of I/O, access errors

[Paul Eggert]

On 9/20/19 5:43 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:

> For such signals we have `access-file'. We shouldn't move its
> functionality to `file-attributes'.

access-file is different: it signals an error if you cannot access (actually, 
read) a file, and if you cannot access the file because you cannot search its 
parent directory then that's simply another reason that you cannot access the 
file. In contrast, a predicate like file-exists-p is supposed to tell you 
whether the file exists regardless of whether you can access it.