Zeuthen: Writing a C library, part 1

If it's a base that you can build language bindings on top of, then the libdbus-1 authors have even *less* idea than they might have as to what the process is doing, and it's even more critical that it should never die. (But it is true that a lot of Great Big Languages have no hope of handling OOM errors: dynamic allocation is too fundamental to them. However, for others this same property is a benefit, because they often have a lot of dynamically-allocated storage that they can get rid of, and even their own allocators so they can be sure the storage finds its way back to the OS again.)

Damn good articles btw.