Hi, I have an application wherein I have say 10 threads which are created unconditionally and run a "while(1);". Will they be shown in the output of ps -A as 10 different processes? ~Abu. Abu M. Muttalib Associate, Aftek Infosys Ltd., Pune, India Office: 91-20-25449260-65 X-254 Email: abum@xxxxxxxxx -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/