wok-current view proot/description.txt @ rev 25511
memtest: 386 support
| author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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| date | Mon Feb 13 17:17:56 2023 +0000 (21 months ago) |
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1 PRoot is a user-space implementation of chroot, mount --bind, and binfmt_misc.
2 This means that users don't need any privileges or setup to do things like
3 using an arbitrary directory as the new root filesystem, making files
4 accessible somewhere else in the filesystem hierarchy, or executing programs
5 built for another CPU architecture transparently through QEMU user-mode.
6 Also, developers can use PRoot as a generic Linux process instrumentation
7 engine thanks to its extension mechanism, see CARE for an example.
8 Technically PRoot relies on ptrace, an unprivileged system-call available
9 in every Linux kernel.