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One minor-ish style point, there is no need to do 
use POSIX 'WNOHANG';
use POSIX 'setsid';
use POSIX 'sys_wait_h';

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use 
use POSIX qw( WNOHANG setsid sys_wait_h );

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instead. Repeated use statements for the same module are redundant and become awkward quickly, IMHO.

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