If a fakeroot process wants to change the ownership of a file, then
faked
is the process that remembers that new owner. If later the same
fakeroot process does a stat() for that filename, then the libfakeroot
wrapped stat() call will first ask faked for the fake ownership etc
of that file, and then report it.
OPTIONS
--debug
Print debugging information on stderr.
--foreground
Don't fork into the background.
--cleanup number
Cleanup the semaphores.
--key key-number
Don't allocate a new communication channel, but use channel specified
by key. (If the specified channel doesn't exist, it's created).
--save-file save-file
Save the environment to save-file on exit.
--load
Load a previously saved environment from the standard input.
--unknown-is-real
Use real ownership of previously-unknown files instead of setting them to
root:root.
--port tcp-port
Use TCP port tcp-port.
BUGS
None so far. Be warned, though: although I've written quite a few much
larger (and smaller) programs, I've never written anything that was
as tiny as
fakeroot,
had as many bugs as
fakeroot,
and still was as usable as, say,
fakeroot
version 0.0_3, the first version that could be used to build itself.
COPYING
fakeroot
is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
(GPL 2.0 or greater).
