fakechroot fakechroot provides a fake chroot environment to programs.
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fakechroot provides a fake chroot environment to programs. fakechroot project provides a fake chroot environment to programs. A fake chroot allows you to run programs which require root privileges on an unprivileged user account.For example, you can create a Debian bootstrap or a development environment and build packages inside a chroot'ed system using a standard non-root user account.You can then use the apt-get command to install other packages without root privileges.What's New in This Release:· Stability and compatibility were improved for the latest libc.· Fixes were made for latest version of coreutils.· PF_UNIX sockets are supported.· New functions were added: __fxstatat(2), __fxstatat64(2), fchmodat(2), fchownat(2), __openat(2), __openat64(2), unlinkat(2), mkdirat(2), renameat(2), eaccess(3), bind(2), connect(2), getpeername(2), and getsockname(2).· The chroot(2) function was fixed to not change the current working directory and to handle relative path.· The execve(2) function was fixed to not expand argv0 and handle "#!" correctly. What's New in This Release: · It fixes __fxstatat64(3) function and brings better support for FreeBSD.

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