> can I somehow call the IONotificationPortCreate in the > Framework that Apple built instead,
$ cd /System/Library/Frameworks/ $ cd IOKit.framework/Versions/Current/ $ file IOKit ... Mach-O dynamically linked shared library ... $ nm -m IOKit | grep IONotificationPortCreate ... (__TEXT,__text) external _IONotificationPortCreate $ Looks like it will work. Not named .dylib or .so, but correct `file` type and relevant `nm -m` symbols. Thanks all for help offline, especially Nlzero.com, -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list