> On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 18:35 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: >> Murdok Petrovsky wrote these words on 07/03/11 13:15 CST: >> > I've downloaded and installed fakeroot and fakechroot. >> > >> > Now my question how can i do make install on fakechroot, >> > >> > Makepkg of archlinux use fakeroot but nobody can't explain how it >> works >> >> Sorry, can't help you with these. I've never needed or used them. > > Neither, but from what I can find online, they're doing some magic > with > ptrace and/or LD_PRELOAD. The docs make it sound like they're using > some > sort of trick to make child processes think they're running as root > when > they're not? Weird...
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