Re: Improve reporting of I/O, access errors for Emacs

[Paul Eggert]

On 9/13/19 12:37 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> My point was that in the
> code of the primitive itself, we have all the information to decide
> whether or not to signal an error; but on lower levels, we don't have
> enough context to make such decisions, so we should only return an
> error indication from those lower levels.

OK, thanks for clarifying. I reworked the patch along the lines that you 
suggested, and installed it into master.