Re: fakeroot with chroot.
Hello
On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 02:07:55AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > > I once tried to do something similar, but noticed that
> > > user-mode-linux does the same thing to a fuller extent.
> > >
> > > If you look at it this way, user-mode-linux is a fakeroot that traps
> > > all syscalls.
> >
> > user-mode-linux has too big overload and it is available only for i386
> > architecture. I've tested my modified fakeroot on alpha, sparc and ia64 and it
> > works pretty well.
>
> user-mode-linux can be ported to other arches, and although most ports
> are not complete, I have seen several attempts to port them.
>
> > I read another thread about fakeroot and I think I'll start new project called
> > i.e. fakechroot which will be based on original fakeroot. The original project
> > should be as stable as it is possible. My library is too experimental.
> >
>
> Yes, fakechroot would be a good name, I considered using that name
> myself when I tried writing my version of extended fakeroot.
>
> However, with fakeroot you are only overriding function symbols,
> and syscalls are not overloaded. I don't think it's really a recommended
> practice to call system calls directly without using glibc, but
> it is possible, and fakeroot will not work in that case.
>
> There are pretty ugly corner cases due to the way symbols are
> resolved, but since you seem to have gone quite far with fakechroot,
> I would wish you good luck in completing it, it looks like a very
> exciting project :)
If interested check the vserver package. It allows you to really fake a
real root.
It needs a patched kernel though (kernel-patch-ctx).
Regards,
// Ola
>
> regards,
> junichi
>
>
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