Re: BSD::Resource

[email protected] (Jarkko Hietaniemi) Mon, 25 Oct 1999 21:36:42 +0300 (EET DST)
Newsgroups perl.sdk
Organization IKI ry, Finland
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Nathan Torkington writes:
 > This module provides useful process restrictions that Perl can't
 > otherwise address (memory, CPU, etc.).  However, it's
 > platform-dependent.
 > 
 > Should it stay or should it go?

I say it should stay but I'm of course somewhat biased.

Addendum: I can hack v2.0 (in alpha phase) to be more robust
(e.g. return undefs or whatnot in non-(BSD-)UNIX platforms).
Or if I get help on non-rusage/ rlimit() platforms to emulate
some of the functionality, even better.

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