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Improve reporting of I/O, access errors

Signal an error for file-oriented errors that are not tame
errors like ENOENT and ENOTDIR (Bug#37389).
Do this for primitives exposed to Lisp; the lower
level internal C API merely makes errno values available
to higher-level C code.
* doc/lispref/files.texi (Testing Accessibility)
(File Attributes, Extended Attributes): Do not say that the
functions return nil when the return value cannot be determined.
* etc/NEWS: Mention the change.
* src/dired.c (Ffile_attributes): Fix doc string confusion
about opening a file vs getting its attributes.
(file_attributes): Signal serious errors.
* src/fileio.c (check_existing, check_executable)
(check_writable): Remove.  All callers changed to use
check_file_access or file_access_p.
(file_access_p, file_metadata_errno, file_attribute_errno)
(file_test_errno, check_file_access, check_emacs_readlinkat):
New functions.
* src/fileio.c (Ffile_executable_p, Ffile_readable_p)
(Ffile_name_case_insensitive_p, Frename_file, Ffile_exists_p):
(Ffile_symlink_p, Ffile_directory_p)
(Ffile_accessible_directory_p, Ffile_regular_p)
(Ffile_selinux_context, Ffile_acl, Ffile_modes)
(Ffile_newer_than_file_p, Fset_visited_file_modtime)
(Ffile_system_info):
* src/filelock.c (unlock_file, Ffile_locked_p):
* src/lread.c (Fload):
Signal serious errors.
* src/fileio.c (Ffile_writable_p): Remove unnecessary CHECK_STRING.
(emacs_readlinkat): Now static.
* src/filelock.c (current_lock_owner, lock_if_free): Return a
positive errno on error, and the negative of the old old value
on success.  All callers changed.
* src/lread.c (openp): Propagate serious errno values to caller.