Hi, Thanks Srdjan. The ps that I am running is part of buzybox. Its not accepting the said options. My need is to see the parent child relationship between processes/threads. ~Abu. Abu M. Muttalib Associate, Aftek Infosys Ltd., Pune, India Office: 91-20-25449260-65 X-254 Email: abum@xxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: Srdjan Todorovic [mailto:todorovic.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:30 PM To: Abu M. Muttalib Cc: kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: PS output for threads On Thu, 25 May 2006, Abu M. Muttalib wrote: > 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? Try with ps -eLf Srdjan Todorovic -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/