I ++ed your node, but please note that on some systems you'd have to fork() and exit() twice to completely dissociate from the original process's resources. fork(), exit(), and POSIX::setsid() is even better.

Proc::Daemon has its good points, but why would I want it to reopen three file handles if I'm going to turn around and close them anyway? That doesn't seem like a very useful thing to do in the generic case. Still, for production code it wouldn't hurt to use it just for the fact that someone else has already debugged it.

Christopher E. Stith
use coffee;