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updated proot (5.1.0 -> 5.3.1)
| author | Hans-G?nter Theisgen |
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| date | Thu Jun 30 14:53:40 2022 +0100 (22 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.