Hello,
I'm trying to make my script more efficient so I decided to learn how to use fork.
This question is more on how to write it nice and clean
I have about 13 different calls that create files. Those calls are not depended and they can run parallel: 
create_file('A');
create_file('B');
create_file('C');
create_file('D');
create_file('E');
...

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I understand how to create a fork and how to check if there is one and why it is important to use the wait function.
But I don't know how to make it look nice, clean and readable. Should I create a special function which will be called every time I need to create X (for example 5) forks? How should I keep track of those forks? If for example, I have 13 things I can run parallel, should I use 13 forks (running on a strong machine)? Meaning how to determine how many forks to use?
I would really love to see some real example with for example 13 different calls.

In reply to Learning to use fork() by ovedpo15

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