> > So it can return NULL?
>
> Returning null here won't help if the caller doesn't have a fallback, or if the fallback
> is unacceptable, such as losing a filesystem transaction.
Not having a fallback is unacceptable. Thats the real problem. You can't
go around pandering to sloppy coders who can't work a memory allocator
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