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/proc for macOS/OS X 64-bit

System Requirements

  • Mac OS X 10.5+ (10.4 is no longer supported)

  • pcre (specifically, the C++ wrapper for pcre)

    ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/

Usage

You can mount procfs as:

$ sudo mkdir /proc $ sudo chown root:admin /proc $ sudo ./procfs /proc -f

For certain things to work (and not crash procfs), you must either run procfs foregrounded (through the -f option), or use the procfs.plist file to run procfs through launchd.