Fakeroot Next Gen 0.06 (Default branch) |
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Wednesday February 6, 2008. 08:31 PM FreshMeat
Fakeroot-ng runs a program while fooling it into
thinking it is running with root privileges. When
the program does something that only root can do
(e.g. create a device file), fakeroot-ng emulates
the appropriate system calls so that the program
gets a consistent view of its actions. Unlike the
original fakeroot, fakeroot-ng uses the ptrace
interface, which means that it will (soon) support
emulating chroot jails properly.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
The package is fairly stable (for the platforms it supports). It already supports running "strace" within the fake root (no support for strace's -f option yet). There is no support for "chroot" yet.
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