while (my $line = <FILE>) {
         chomp $line;
         push @$outref, $line;
   # for test purposes - make it timeout!
         sleep 5;
         $outbytes += length($line);
         if ($outbytes >= $g_max_file_size) {
            warn "Maximum file size reached after $outbytes bytes";
            last;
         }
   }