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).
AUTHORS
joost witteveen
< joostje@debian.org >
Clint Adams
< schizo@debian.org >
Timo Savola
MANUAL PAGE
mostly by J.H.M. Dassen
<jdassen@debian.org> mods/additions by joost and Clint.
