Newbie needs help with forking

[Michael Smith]

Hey Yall (from Tennessee you know),

Here is what I want to do:

Start a perl script which first forks a process that runs own it's
own. This child process will be a Oracle sqlldr job. This job will
run for about 30 mintes

While the sqlldr job is running return to the parent thread and start
running a bunch of database selects and OS commands to give me
statistics on the overall performance.

Once the sqlldr job completes stop collecting statistics and end the
script.

Anyone have an example close to that?

Thanks,

Mike