bug#37950: closed (27.0.50; File error regression)

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> 27.0.50; File error regression
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> Mon, 28 Oct 2019 00:50:25 +0200
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
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> 0. emacs -Q
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> 1. in Dired type 'v' ('dired-view-file') to view a read-protected file, e.g.
>    from non-root to visit a file with such permissions: -rw------- root root
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> 2. Empty buffer is displayed (but the file size is several kilobytes)
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> 3. The echo area displays the message:
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>    View mode: type C-h for help, h for commands, q to quit.
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> 4. Visiting *Messages* reveals the error message:
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>    Note: file is write protected
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> obscured by the View mode message above.
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> But this error message is wrong anyway.  In previous versions
> the error message was correct:
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>     find-file-noselect-1: File is not readable:
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> and it rightfully refused to visit the read-protected file.
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> In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30)
>  of 2019-10-27 built on localhost
> Repository revision: c6667cc6a958e06fd43fb1ee0e80753adfefa49d
> Repository branch: master
> Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11906000
> System Description: Linux Mint 19
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> Recent messages:
> For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
> Note: file is write protected
> View mode: type C-h for help, h for commands, q to quit.
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> Configured using:
>  'configure --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xwidgets --with-xft
>  --with-modules --enable-checking=yes,glyphs
>  --enable-check-lisp-object-type 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3 -gdwarf-4''
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> Configured features:
> XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY
> GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB
> TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS XWIDGETS PDUMPER
> LCMS2 GMP
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> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: et_EE.UTF-8
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_US.UTF-8
>   value of $LC_TIME: en_DK.utf8
>   value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
>   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: 27.0.50; File error regression Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 23:39:07 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0

Thanks for the bug report. That one's my fault, as it was due to this patch:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=ba0605779e0e207161441c08afdfac57ed603f69

which fixed a problem elsewhere but introduced a bug. I installed the attached patch to fix things.

0001-Fix-insert-file-contents-file-error-regression.patch
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