First question: why do you want to avoid forking and threads? Second question: Are you saying you want the subroutine to run in a process which doesn't have the module as a parent?
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Unknown User <knowsuperunkn...@gmail.com> wrote: > What is a good way to fire and forget a sub from a module in perl, in a > non blocking mode, preferably without forking or using threads. > I may have to run the sub a few times to determine the approx delay for it > to run, so i suppose i need a blocking mode for it too. But afterwards, it > can run in non blocking mode. > > - Unknown > -- Andrew Solomon Mentor@Geekuni http://geekuni.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/asolomon