Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> At 12:25 PM 3/28/00 -0500, Charles Lane wrote:
> >You set $ENV{PERL_MBX_SIZE} if you want something different.
> I think I'd like something a little more private, which is why I was
> thinking of a magic variable. %ENV settings affect the environment and
> propagate around--that's OK in some cases, but a little unsubtle.
Well, one of the main reasons for making the MBX size smaller is to
avoid exhausting your buffered I/O byte count quota. The quota is
"pooled" for use by all processes in a single job so it makes sense to
propagate MBX size restrictions to child processes, so that the parent
has some say over how much resources the kids are using.
Seemed like a logical was the, um, logical way to do that.
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