Switch from mach task_info to proc_pidinfo #42
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The problem with the mach task_info routines is that on modern versions of
macos they require the task_for_pid-allow entitlement in order to get the
mach_task for another process (because there's all sorts of nefarious
things you can do with the mach port)
Since macos 10.5 the proc_* family of functions are a better way for getting
read-only information about processes.
This will still fail if the process is owned by another user. At the moment this raises Errno::EPERM, but should we perhaps rescue that somewhere and fall through to the next case (ps_memory)?
cc #32 #39 #41