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reyjrar has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: (programs and processes)

Is it possible to background a perl script from within itself, so that it starts like a daemon, i.e. like a generic equivalent of & on unix?
> ./myserver Server starting ... bound to port 4000!

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