The problem is that when you call 
`$myscript &`;

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You are essentially calling 
`sh -c '$myscript &'`;

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In other words... you are waiting for the shell process to terminate... but the shell process (if it were interactive) would have returned a prompt imediately after firing off $myScript.

If you really want to fire off a background job from a perl process, and don't care about the output (btw: backticks imply that you do care about the output, but continuing imediately imply that you do not care about the output)... then you should do something more like this: 

my $pid = fork;
die "Could not fork: $!" unless defined $pid;
if (!$pid) {
   exec $myScript;
}

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Which is somewhat akin to what the shell does when you launch the program foo by typing: 
[user@host]$ foo &

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In reply to Re: http waits on process by etcshadow
in thread http waits on process by hotshot

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