Running job in the background from Perl WITHOUT waiting for return

Question

The Disclaimer

First of all, I know this question (or close variations) have been asked a thousand times. I really spent a few hours looking in the obvious and the

Answer 1

Use fork() and then call system in the child process.

my $pid = fork();
if (defined $pid && $pid == 0) {
    # child
    system($command);    # or exec($command)
    exit 0;
}
# parent
# ... continue ...