in reply to Fork exec and not wait?

Is there anyway to either fork a process and force its output to /dev/null or simply make the parent ignore the child and continue?

Possibly using 

$SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE';

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will work, I didn't see anyone mention it yet.
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