in reply to Running a process in the background
You will need to fork a child process, so while that one is doing the "background" work, the parent can keep going.
If you have several background processes to run at the same time, Parallel::ForkManager is good.
Tiago
If you have several background processes to run at the same time, Parallel::ForkManager is good.
Tiago
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