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Safe utilization of fork() to create multiple children, without data races

I’m writing a small program which uses fork() to create 4 child threads. I am new to working with fork() and want to make certain I am using the most thread-safe approach. The issue I am having does not seem to have negative effects on the outcome but it does seem to indicate that there is some indeterminate behavior which I would like to address. Consider the code below: