in reply to External controlling of a multi-threaded Windows perl program

I would like to control the behaviour of this program externally.

What do you mean by that?

For example, if you mean starting and stopping it when it is running in the background, take a look at Win32::Daemon::Simple to make your program run as a Windows Service. It can then be 'controlled' in the usual ways using the MMC.

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