Re: Interrupting Perl from another thread under Win32

Mmmmmm I dnt know if your problem lends its self to this, but, why not have the little utility listen on a socket for some kind of interupt signal.

You could poll the socket periodically and take whatever activity you need?

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Re: Re: Interrupting Perl from another thread under Win32 by Stevie-O (Friar) on Apr 21, 2004 at 23:39 UTC
Unfortunately, if it's stuck in an infinite loop, it's probably not going to be listening for a 'break out' signal. --Stevie-O `$"=$,,$_=q>\|\p4<6 8p<M/_\|<('=> .q>.<4-KI<l\|2$<6%s!<qn#F<>;$, .=pack'N',"@{[unpack'C',$_] }"for split/</;$_=$,,y[A-Z a-z] {}cd;print lc` [download]	[reply] [d/l]


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