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gcoates has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, monks. I need to write several perl CGI scripts that kick off another program, send some information to the browser, and then exit while the other program does its thing in the background. I looked at the exec and system functions, but it looks like these both wait for the called program to return before the parent program will continue or exit. Is there any way to do what I'm trying to do?