I have the pid (process identifier) of an arbitrary running process. How can I find the bundle identifier (if any) of the associated application?
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I have the pid (process identifier) of an arbitrary running process. How can I find the bundle identifier (if any) of the associated application?
Here’s a way that works in 10.2 and later: First call
GetProcessForPIDto turn the pid into aProcessSerialNumber. Then callProcessInformationCopyDictionaryto get the bundle ID. (Added: these functions are deprecated in OS 10.9. I don’t know if they still exist in the 10.10 SDK.)