[mattmanser]

It's actually pretty common for a file exception to be exceptional.

In all programs I've ever worked on you don't want to have to check useless junk like that and just want the general exception handler to handle it.

[preordained]

This isn't true at all depending on your work. I program software that has to work alongside other programs on busy file systems...failing to read/write a file is not someone else's problem...it needs to be handled, logged, there is potentially a retry and/or notification.