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On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 12:11 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> This whole thing is getting stupid. "Perfection is the enemy of
> success".
> 
> Your code will also fail when the cat pees on the computer, when the
> power fails and when disk dies. I suspect that other than the cat these
> are all more likely real world cases than your ENOMEM.

Time to open a thread on G+ and close this one I guess.