Robert F. Scheer wrote:
> I can do it this way, sure.  Just have to figure out how to do the
> signalling and interprocess communication.  Would you use sockets for
> the ipc?

Yes. It's the easiest way to get things going given your time 
constraints. If you had more time I would recommend learning enough 
slang and vm plugin coding to signal a semaphore directly since this 
would take out one additional set of hops in the middle.

Cheers,
   - Andreas