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Up fdutils (5.6), lite (1.11), again
author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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date | Fri Sep 20 09:24:30 2024 +0000 (2 days ago) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/proot/description.txt Fri Sep 20 09:24:30 2024 +0000 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ 1.4 +PRoot is a user-space implementation of chroot, mount --bind, and binfmt_misc. 1.5 +This means that users don't need any privileges or setup to do things like 1.6 +using an arbitrary directory as the new root filesystem, making files 1.7 +accessible somewhere else in the filesystem hierarchy, or executing programs 1.8 +built for another CPU architecture transparently through QEMU user-mode. 1.9 +Also, developers can use PRoot as a generic Linux process instrumentation 1.10 +engine thanks to its extension mechanism, see CARE for an example. 1.11 +Technically PRoot relies on ptrace, an unprivileged system-call available 1.12 +in every Linux kernel.