fakeroot

Section: Debian GNU/Linux manual (1)
Updated: 26 July 1997
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NAME

faked - daemon that remembers `fake' ownership/permissions of files manipulated by fakeroot processes.

SYNOPSIS

faked [--debug] [--foreground] [--cleanup] [--key msg-key]

DESCRIPTION

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 semafores.
--key key-number: Don't allocate a new communication channel, but use chanel specified by key. (If the specified chanel doesn't exist, it's created).

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).

AUTHOR

joost witteveen <joostje@debian.org>

MANUAL PAGE

mostly by J.H.M. Dassen <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl> mods/additions by joost.

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