Does PRoot work on MacOSX?

[katakombi]

Hi everyone,

I am developing a Linux software which relies on proot, and checking whether I could make it available for MacOS. Does proot run already successfully under recent MacOSes?
If the answer is no, what would be necessary to be done?

thanks

[oxr463]

In a word, no.

Technically PRoot relies on ptrace, an unprivileged system-call available in every Linux kernel. --https://proot-me.github.io

See also: #32

[katakombi]

Thanks for the prompt answer! Though I knew about the ptrace dependency I recall having read that there exists ptrace implementations for FreeBSD/MacOSX as well and thought that it might be doable somehow. But then again I don't have too much expertise in that particular technical field, and take your answer as "There is no support and for certain reasons it is technically not feasible!"
Please correct me if I'm wrong :D

[oxr463]

You're welcome! You are correct, ptrace is implemented on other UNIX-like systems (1), however, without going into too much detail, most of the PRoot code-base has been written against Linux specifically. For now, myself and a few others are trying to improve the project as-is, but maybe in the far future, we may be able to make the code portable to other kernels.