SIGTERM and other signals in LabVIEW

Hello Everybody
I was wondering wether somebody figured out some nice trick to handle unexpected events in LabVIEW like in Linux: signals.
Actually I am not so interested in handling the exceptions, but rather to have a tool to communicate between vis (processes).
The exsample for this could be a vi running in subpannel in parralel with other vi controlled by user. For user demand other vi needs to be placed into the subpannel and executed.
In this example it would be nice to have some "signal" handling procedure, where the running vi will handle the SIGTERM signal and will close itself letting another vi to use subpannel.
I know that I can use a vi server to set some controls of the running vi and in this way tell it to
stop.
But I was wondering if somebody though about something else, something more embeded into the core of LV.
I am sorry if I am not clear of what I want, but maybe somebody will understand .
thanks in advance.
Pawel

I dont want to reduce the signals. I want to capture ctrl-c event, and perform some close activities and then exit.
I can use the wrapper script to capture the signal but from there I cant access the class which I want to access.
Is this possible? If yes, could you pl send some sample code.
In the IBM url -
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/i-signalhandling/
I tried to execute the code, but could not.

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