diff lispref/errors.texi @ 21007:66d807bdc5b4

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author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Sat, 28 Feb 1998 01:53:53 +0000
parents 981e116b4ac6
children 90da2489c498
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--- a/lispref/errors.texi	Sat Feb 28 01:49:58 1998 +0000
+++ b/lispref/errors.texi	Sat Feb 28 01:53:53 1998 +0000
@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@
 and the symbol @code{error}.  Occasionally it includes additional
 symbols, which are intermediate classifications, narrower than
 @code{error} but broader than a single error symbol.  For example, all
-the errors in accessing files have the condition @code{file-error}.
+the errors in accessing files have the condition @code{file-error}.  If
+we do not say here that a certain error symbol has additional error
+conditions, that means it has none.
 
   As a special exception, the error symbol @code{quit} does not have the
 condition @code{error}, because quitting is not considered an error.
@@ -66,6 +68,11 @@
 This is not a @code{file-error}.@*
 @xref{Input Functions}.
 
+@item file-date-error
+This is a subcategory of @code{file-error}.  It occurs when
+@code{copy-file} tries and fails to set the last-modification time of
+the output file.  @xref{Changing Files}.
+
 @item file-error
 This error and its subcategories do not have error-strings, because the
 error message is constructed from the data items alone when the error