This should suit your needs as far as I can tell, from the little that you've written.

defined ($pid = fork) or die "couldn't fork: $!";
$pid or exec 'gsview', ...
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wait $pid; # == $pobj->Wait
kill TSTP => $pid; # == $pobj->Suspend
kill CONT => $pid; # == $pobj->Resume
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