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| author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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| date | Thu Jun 22 11:01:59 2023 +0000 (14 months ago) |
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| Hans-G?nter@25152 | 1 PRoot is a user-space implementation of chroot, mount --bind, and binfmt_misc. |
| Hans-G?nter@25152 | 2 This means that users don't need any privileges or setup to do things like |
| Hans-G?nter@25152 | 3 using an arbitrary directory as the new root filesystem, making files |
| Hans-G?nter@25152 | 4 accessible somewhere else in the filesystem hierarchy, or executing programs |
| Hans-G?nter@25152 | 5 built for another CPU architecture transparently through QEMU user-mode. |
| Hans-G?nter@25152 | 6 Also, developers can use PRoot as a generic Linux process instrumentation |
| Hans-G?nter@25152 | 7 engine thanks to its extension mechanism, see CARE for an example. |
| Hans-G?nter@25152 | 8 Technically PRoot relies on ptrace, an unprivileged system-call available |
| Hans-G?nter@25152 | 9 in every Linux kernel. |