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Subject: Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages
To: phillips@bonn-fries.net (Daniel Phillips)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 19:22:01 +0000 (GMT)
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> > 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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