binary tree of processes

I am having trouble developing a program in C that will fork/create processes in the form of a binary tree. The idea is that the program takes in a command-line argument between 1 and 7, which represents the depth of the binary tree. The program should create processes until the specified depth of the binary tree is reached. Each process also has a random data value between 1 and 5. If a process forks another set of child processes then its data value will grow to be the sum of all of the data values of its child and grandchild processes, etc. So if the command-line argument is 3 then the tree should look something like this, in theory:

Code:

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                      7(2)
          3(4)
                      6(2)
1(2)
                      5(3)
          2(1)
                      4(4)

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The program will output a line for each process when it is created which declares that process' pid, its parent's pid, its process # (overall), and its data value. Upon exiting, each process will print another line of output which states its process #, its pid, and its data value. So for example, process #4 would print out that it is Process 4, its pid (whatever it may be), and its data value of 4. Process #2 would print out that it is Process 2, its pid, and its data value is calculated to be 8 (the sum of the data values from processes 4 and 5). My program doesn't appear to be correct at all. It is creating too many processes and the data values for any process that has children gets way too big. Because the exit function can only return a value between 0 and 255, 255 is the maximum data value that process #1 could have. That is the reason that the random numbers can only be between 1 and 5 and there is a maximum depth of 7. If all processes in a tree of depth 7 have data values of 5, then the 1st process should end up with a data value of 255. So, I really need some help because I have no idea what I am doing wrong and I don't know where to go from here. Thank you, and my code is posted below.

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>

void buildTree(int depth)
{
        int i = 0;
        int pid, status;
        int total = 2; //total number of processes that need to be created
        int data = 0;

        if(depth > 1)
        {
                //performs pow with ints
                //2^depth to get the total number of processes in the tree
                for(i = 0; i < depth; i++ )
                {
                        total = total*2;
                }

                total--; //subtract 1 from the total because the top level only has 1 process

                for(i = 0; i < total; i++)
                {
                        pid = fork();

                        if(pid < 0)
                        {
                                //Error
                                printf("Fork failed\n");
                                exit(1);
                        }
                        else if(pid == 0)
                        {
                                //Child
                                srand(getpid());
                                data = 1 + rand()%5; //get a random value to store in process

                                //print the child's information
                                printf("My pid is %d, my parent pid is %d, my data value is %d\n", getpid(), getppid(), data);

                                if(depth > 0) //another level of the tree needs to be created
                                        buildTree(--depth);
                                else //no more levels need to be created so prepare to exit
                                        printf("My pid is %d and my exit value is %d.\n", getpid(), data);

                                exit(data); //exit and return the data value currently stored

                                return;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                                //Parent
                                wait(&status); //wait for child and store returned value in status
                                data = data + status; //add child's data value to parent's
                                printf("My pid is %d and my exit value is %d.\n", getpid(), data); //parent is exiting, so print its information
                        }
                }
        }
        else
                total = 1; //there is only 1 process
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        if(argc != 2)
                printf("Usage: <program> <integer>\n");
        else
        {
                int depth = atoi(argv[1]);
                buildTree(depth);
        }

        return 0;
}

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Start with a program which just creates a tree from your input parameters.
At each node, print out how many child nodes it has - should be 0, 1 or 2.

Code:

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void buildTree(int depth) {
  // some stuff
  printf( "This node has %d children\n", nchilds );
  // more stuff
}

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Once you've done that, then you can modify to

Code:

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void buildTree(int depth) {
  // some stuff
  printf( "This node has %d children\n", nchilds );
  createChildren( nchilds );
  sum = waitChildren( nchilds );
  exit( sum );
  // more stuff
}

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