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<p><c>active</c> - the count of all actively running child processes
- managed by this supervisor.</p>
+ managed by this supervisor. In the case of <c>simple_one_for_one</c>
+ supervisors, no check is carried out to ensure that each child process
+ is still alive, though the result provided here is likely to be very
+ accurate unless the supervisor is heavily overloaded.</p>
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<p><c>supervisors</c> - the count of all children marked as