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insert-file-contents: forbids also beg, end for non-regular (special) files

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>
Cc: 18370 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18370: insert-file-contents: forbids also beg, end for non-regular (special) files 
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2022 14:40:27 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Simple test case:
>
> (insert-file-contents "/dev/urandom" nil nil 10)
>
> This still fails in Emacs 29, and it would indeed be nice if it worked.
> I seem to remember this being discussed previously, and that...  er...
> no, I can't really recall anything more than that.
>
> Does anybody see any good reasons why we shouldn't allow this?  If not,
> I can take a stab at implementing it...

There were no objections, so I've now added this to Emacs 29.

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