std.concurrency.setMaxMailboxSize

[RazvanN]

On Wednesday, 11 October 2017 at 11:26:11 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
> On 11/10/2017 12:09 PM, RazvanN wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have seen that the concurrency api has this method specified 
>> in $title [1] and I was wondering what is the use of it? 
>> Enabling threads to modify the message box of other threads 
>> doesn't seem to be a good idea and I can't think of any real 
>> use case.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> RazvanN
>> 
>> [1] 
>> https://dlang.org/phobos/std_concurrency.html#.setMaxMailboxSize
>
> Main controlling thread setting child threads?
>
> Otherwise I don't remember the last time it was mentioned, so 
> I'd say leave it be :)

Shouldn't the thread be in charge of its mailbox size? Otherwise, 
main can pass the max size in the constructor.