Your father should wait for your child, otherwise the child might become a zombie... Brrrrr.

see : fork

If you really want the father to resign his soon, hence letting the son dying alone, consider the following code: 

#! /usr/bin/perl
#
# Playing with processes ...

use POSIX qw(setsid);

if ( $pid = fork()){
  print "I am the father..\n";
  print " Child pid : $pid \n";
 
}
else{
  setsid();
  close STDIN  ; #  Inside a web server
  close STDERR ; #  Idem
  close STDOUT ; #  Idem
  print "\nI am the child \n";
  print "I am $$\n";
  $timer= 30 ;
  sleep($timer);
  print "\nWahhh, i am awake after $timer seconds \n";
}

exit 0 ;

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Hope it helps.

-- Nice photos of naked perl sources here !

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in thread thread inside mod_perl handler will never been released by earlati2

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