You people are great and solved my first problem in a hurry--THANKS!

Now I'd like to see if there is a way for one of my processes to interrupt another. I envision sending a signal from one server-type process to a client-type process. The client would abort current processing upon receiving the signal, read a bunch of stuff from a Win32::Pipe, and then start its processing again.

Since I'm running under Windows, I'm very leary of using SIG or anything that expects a UNIX OS. If I shouldn't be, just let me know, but my investigation into named pipes (solved with Win32::Pipe) suggests that I'm properly concerned.

The biggest trick seems to be that I don't want the client to be reentrant. I want to interrupt the client and never return to the position at which the client was running (figuratively issue a GOTO type of command).

Here is the application (basically)...my primary process is managing a fantasy football draft, my secondary process searches for a trade that might be beneficial to me. Since there are many trade possibilities, I want to investigate as many as it can. Unfortunately, the whole structure changes each time someone makes a draft pick. Thus I want to interrupt the secondary process wheneve a pick is made, send information about the pick selected over, and then tell the secondary process to start looking for a new potential trade. Fun, huh?

In reply to Sending and Catching Signals/Interrupts by bfish

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