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proot - ptrace-based chroot
Published by Tim Cuthbertson
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- Description
PRoot is a user-space implementation of chroot, mount --bind, and binfmt_misc. This means that users don't need any privilege or setup to do things like: using an arbitrary directory as the new root filesystem, making files accessible somewhere else in the filesystem hierarchy, or executing programs built for another CPU architecture transparently through QEMU user-mode. Also, developers can add their own features or use PRoot as a Linux process instrumentation engine thanks to its extension mechanism. Technically PRoot relies on ptrace, an unprivileged system-call available in every Linux kernel.
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Version Released Stability Platform Download 2.3.1-post Source code Download (130441 bytes) 2.3.1-post 2013-03-17 Linux-x86_64 Download (47195 bytes) - Required libraries
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