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message = 'Good Morning'
recipient = 'tree@mybackyard.com'
pid = fork do
# In this contrived example the parent process forks a child to take
# care of sending data to the stats collector. Meanwhile the parent
# process has continued on with its work of sending the actual payload.
# The parent process doesn't want to be slowed down with this task, and
# it doesn't matter if this would fail for some reason.
StatsCollector.record message, recipient
end
# This line ensures that the process performing the stats collection
# won't become a zombie.
Process.detach(pid)
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