Russell Coker <[email protected]> writes:

> On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:12:14 Sean Crosby wrote:
>> I'm not aware of one, but is there a way to redirect file open calls for
>> /path1/file1 to /path2/file2 in a script? It only has to be for file
>> open/read calls, and not write. The /path1 filesystem is not writeable by
>> the user.
>
> This is something that you could do with LD_PRELOAD.  There's probably a
> module out there to do it already if you google it, but if not it's not that
> hard to write if you've good at C coding.

fakeroot(1) can do this, I think.
LD_PRELOAD is one of the available strategies.

As used by Debian to build packages,
it basically says:

  Anytime you try to do something that's not allowed,
  I'll claim that I did it, and remember (inside myself) what was done,
  so if you e.g. install a file then read it, I'll act like it worked.

  But outside me, nothing has actually changed.

It can persist its sate between runs.

Ref. http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fakeroot

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