If your on Windows take a look at Win32::Semaphore for a simple IPC signalling mechanism if you can modify the other process, or Win32::ChangeNotify to have the OS inform you when the file is modifed regardless of who modifies it.
Okay you lot, get your wings on the left, halos on the right. It's one size fits all, and "No!", you can't have a different color.
Pick up your cloud down the end and "Yes" if you get allocated a grey one they are a bit damp under foot, but someone has to get them.
Get used to the wings fast cos its an 8 hour day...unless the Govenor calls for a cyclone or hurricane, in which case 16 hour shifts are mandatory.
Just be grateful that you arrived just as the tornado season finished. Them buggers are real work.