Re: sqlite3

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 11:56:31 +0100
> 
> >> Also -- it would be better to catch just the "Permission denied" error
> >> instead of all file errors in the `condition-case' -- but I guess we
> >> don't signal a more specific error for that?
> >
> > Yes, we do: write-region calls report_file_errno, which includes the
> > specific error in the error data.
> 
> You mean in the string "Permission denied"?  Can we rely on that not
> being localised?  (Looking at the Windows code, it seems like we're
> making the string ourselves, but is that also the case on other systems?)

We could invent a new symbol for EACCES (like 'file-missing' for
ENOENT we already have), and return that instead in this case, instead
of the general 'file-error'.