diff --git a/util/posix/process_util.h b/util/posix/process_util.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0abe46eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/util/posix/process_util.h
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+// Copyright 2014 The Crashpad Authors. All rights reserved.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+#ifndef CRASHPAD_UTIL_POSIX_PROCESS_UTIL_POSIX_H_
+#define CRASHPAD_UTIL_POSIX_PROCESS_UTIL_POSIX_H_
+
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#include <string>
+#include <vector>
+
+namespace crashpad {
+
+//! \brief Obtains the arguments used to launch a process.
+//!
+//! \param[in] pid The process ID of the process to examine.
+//! \param[out] argv The process’ arguments as passed to its `main()` function
+//!     as the \a argv parameter, possibly modified by the process.
+//!
+//! \return `true` on success, with \a argv populated appropriately. Otherwise,
+//!     `false`.
+//!
+//! \note This function may spuriously return `false` when used to examine a
+//!     process that it is calling `exec()`. If examining such a process, call
+//!     this function in a retry loop with a small (100ns) delay to avoid an
+//!     erroneous assumption that \a pid is not running.
+bool ProcessArgumentsForPID(pid_t pid, std::vector<std::string>* argv);
+
+}  // namespace crashpad
+
+#endif  // CRASHPAD_UTIL_POSIX_PROCESS_UTIL_POSIX_H_
diff --git a/util/posix/process_util_mac.cc b/util/posix/process_util_mac.cc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..07ee60d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/util/posix/process_util_mac.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+// Copyright 2014 The Crashpad Authors. All rights reserved.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+#include "util/posix/process_util.h"
+
+#include <string.h>
+#include <sys/sysctl.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+
+#include "base/basictypes.h"
+
+namespace crashpad {
+
+bool ProcessArgumentsForPID(pid_t pid, std::vector<std::string>* argv) {
+  // The format of KERN_PROCARGS2 is explained in 10.9.2 adv_cmds-153/ps/print.c
+  // getproclline(). It is an int (argc) followed by the executable’s string
+  // area. The string area consists of NUL-terminated strings, beginning with
+  // the executable path, and then starting on an aligned boundary, all of the
+  // elements of argv, envp, and applev.
+
+  // It is possible for a process to exec() in between the two sysctl() calls
+  // below. If that happens, and the string area of the new program is larger
+  // than that of the old one, args_size_estimate will be too small. To detect
+  // this situation, the second sysctl() attempts to fetch args_size_estimate +
+  // 1 bytes, expecting to only receive args_size_estimate. If it gets the extra
+  // byte, it indicates that the string area has grown, and the sysctl() pair
+  // will be retried a limited number of times.
+
+  size_t args_size_estimate;
+  size_t args_size;
+  std::string args;
+  int tries = 3;
+  do {
+    int mib[] = {CTL_KERN, KERN_PROCARGS2, pid};
+    int rv = sysctl(mib, arraysize(mib), NULL, &args_size_estimate, NULL, 0);
+    if (rv != 0) {
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    args_size = args_size_estimate + 1;
+    args.resize(args_size);
+    rv = sysctl(mib, arraysize(mib), &args[0], &args_size, NULL, 0);
+    if (rv != 0) {
+      return false;
+    }
+  } while (args_size == args_size_estimate + 1 && tries--);
+
+  if (args_size == args_size_estimate + 1) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  // KERN_PROCARGS2 needs to at least contain argc.
+  if (args_size < sizeof(int)) {
+    return false;
+  }
+  args.resize(args_size);
+
+  // Get argc.
+  int argc;
+  memcpy(&argc, &args[0], sizeof(argc));
+
+  // Find the end of the executable path.
+  size_t start_pos = sizeof(argc);
+  size_t nul_pos = args.find('\0', start_pos);
+  if (nul_pos == std::string::npos) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  // Find the beginning of the string area.
+  start_pos = args.find_first_not_of('\0', nul_pos);
+  if (start_pos == std::string::npos) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  std::vector<std::string> local_argv;
+  while (argc-- && nul_pos != std::string::npos) {
+    nul_pos = args.find('\0', start_pos);
+    local_argv.push_back(args.substr(start_pos, nul_pos - start_pos));
+    start_pos = nul_pos + 1;
+  }
+
+  if (argc >= 0) {
+    // Not every argument was recovered.
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  argv->swap(local_argv);
+  return true;
+}
+
+}  // namespace crashpad
diff --git a/util/posix/process_util_test.cc b/util/posix/process_util_test.cc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2fb6841e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/util/posix/process_util_test.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+// Copyright 2014 The Crashpad Authors. All rights reserved.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+#include "util/posix/process_util.h"
+
+#include <crt_externs.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#include <string>
+#include <vector>
+
+#include "gtest/gtest.h"
+
+namespace {
+
+using namespace crashpad;
+
+TEST(ProcessUtil, ProcessArgumentsForPID) {
+  std::vector<std::string> argv;
+  ASSERT_TRUE(ProcessArgumentsForPID(getpid(), &argv));
+
+  // gtest argv processing scrambles argv, but it leaves argc and argv[0]
+  // intact, so test those.
+
+  int argc = static_cast<int>(argv.size());
+  int expect_argc = *_NSGetArgc();
+  EXPECT_EQ(expect_argc, argc);
+
+  ASSERT_GE(expect_argc, 1);
+  ASSERT_GE(argc, 1);
+
+  char** expect_argv = *_NSGetArgv();
+  EXPECT_EQ(std::string(expect_argv[0]), argv[0]);
+}
+
+}  // namespace
diff --git a/util/util.gyp b/util/util.gyp
index eafb4922..923f18a2 100644
--- a/util/util.gyp
+++ b/util/util.gyp
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@
         'misc/initialization_state_dcheck.h',
         'misc/uuid.cc',
         'misc/uuid.h',
+        'posix/process_util.h',
+        'posix/process_util_mac.cc',
         'stdlib/cxx.h',
         'stdlib/objc.h',
         'stdlib/strlcpy.cc',
@@ -86,6 +88,7 @@
         'misc/initialization_state_dcheck_test.cc',
         'misc/initialization_state_test.cc',
         'misc/uuid_test.cc',
+        'posix/process_util_test.cc',
         'stdlib/strlcpy_test.cc',
       ],
     },