I need to have a perl script create a new process, and exit while it's child process continues running. I first tried with fork() which doesn't work because perlfork only creates a new psuedo-process (i.e., only creates a new thread), and the parent can't exit until the child returns. 
if (my $ChildPid = fork) {
        # Parent - create lock and exit
        my $Lock = Childlck->new($ResName);
        $Lock->lock_mk($ChildPid);
        exit 0;
    } else {
        # Child - continue as G daemon
        exec $CMD, $CMDLineArgs, @ARGV;
    }

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Next I tried with Win32::Process::Create, and it also exhibits the same problem...the parent doesn't "exit 0", until the child dies. 
    Win32::Process::Create($ChildProc, $CMD, $CMDLine, 0, 0, $CWD) || 
+LOG_MSG("E", "Could not spawn child: $!", 52099);
    $ChildPID = $ChildProc->GetProcessID();
    LOG_MSG("I", "ChildPID = $ChildPID", 52099, $ChildPID);
    my $Lock = Glck->new($ResName);
    $Lock->lock_mk($ChildPID);
    LOG_MSG("I", "Online.pl is about to exit with 0.", 52099);
    exit (0);

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Then I tried using system() to create a new perl process, but it also doesn't return from the parent script until the child dies. 
system($CMDLine);
    my $Lock = Glck->new($ResName);
    LOG_MSG("I", "Online.pl is about to exit with 0.", 52099);
    exit (0);

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How can I create a process and have the parent process return while the child process continues running?

In reply to Can't get Win32::Create::Process() parent to exit before it's children by AlphaGrey

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