GNU bug report logs - #18370
insert-file-contents: forbids also beg, end for non-regular (special) files

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>

Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 19:51:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: moreinfo

Fixed in version 29.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 18370 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18370: insert-file-contents: forbids also beg, end for non-regular (special) files
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 10:11:07 +0300

>> 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.

Maybe this is related to bug#9800, still unfixed after this change.
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