Moved to "darwin-userlevel@lists.apple.com". On Monday, November 19, 2001, at 06:33 AM, Kevin Bohan wrote: If I have a PID is there a way (not is a shell script, but in C code) to determine what the name of the process whose PID this is, if there is a process with this PID. Kirby What do you plan to do with the name? Look at "ps" sources to see how it does it.... --Umesh -- Umesh Vaishampayan Apple Computer, Inc. Mac OS X Kernel Ph: (408) 974 0229