Re: How to get process name from pid?

[Hareesh Nagarajan <hareesh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hareesh Nagarajan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Any idea how I can get the process name from the pid from within the 
> kernel? Is there a function that does this?

Use find_task_by_pid(pid) which returns a pointer to the task_struct. 
The comm field of the task_struct gives the name of the process.

Thanks hareesh! ;)

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