Platform: Apache2 For Windows, Perl Activestate, 5.6.1

Hi, I'm trying to execute a cgi program (pl) from a parent pl and have the parent continue in its run before waiting for the child to complete. I tried calling the pl from a system call, but that only hangs. I am able to call another pl (from within the original pl) by using LWP::Simple, but it waits for the child to complete before continuing.
EX: 
use LWP::Simple;
$site='http://servername/scriptdir/wacka.pl;
$source=getprint("$site");
print "I'm now here";

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Any info on how to make the parent not wait for the child to finish or calling other cgi scripts from a parent cgi (pl)with a system call, such as system, backtics or open |, so it doesn't hang (unfortunately no error message) would be much appreciated, thanks.

2003-04-21 edit ybiC: <code> tags

In reply to LWP Forking by Mitch

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