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=head1 NAME

Acme::Spork - Perl extension for spork()ing in your script

=head1 SYNOPSIS

    use Acme::Spork;
    my $spork_pid = spork(\&long_running_code, @ARGV) 
        or die "Could not fork for spork: $!";
    print "Long running code has been started as PID $spork_pid, bye!\n";

=head1 DESCRIPTION

A spork in the plastic sense is a fork combined with a spoon. In programming I've come to call a spork() a fork() that does more than just a fork.

I use it to describe when you want to fork() to run some long running code but immediately return to the main program instead of waiting for it.

=head1 spork()

The first argument is a code ref that gets executed and any other args are passed to the call to the code ref.