fire-and-forget

How can I fire and forget a process in Perl?

Can somebody please tell me how to fire-and-forget a process in Perl? I've already looked at ruby: how to fire and forget a subprocess? for doing the same in Ruby. ...

C# Improvement on a Fire-and-Forget

Greetings I have a program that creates multiples instances of a class, runs the same long-running Update method on all instances and waits for completion. I'm following Kev's approach from this question of adding the Update to ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem. In the main prog., I'm sleeping for a few minutes and checking a Boolean in th...