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Project Summary

Gives a fake root environment through the use of LD_PRELOAD and SYSV IPC or TCP IPC trickery.

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fake permission root

In a Nutshell, fakeroot...

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has had 658 commits made by 22 contributors
representing 13,225 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with a low number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a average size development team
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 3 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in June, 2004
ending with its most recent commit 10 days ago

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Project Security

Vulnerabilities per Version ( last 10 releases )

There are no reported vulnerabilities

Project Vulnerability Report

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Vulnerability Exposure Index

Many reported vulnerabilities

Few reported vulnerabilities

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Activity

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Community

Contributors per Month

Languages

C	81%
Autoconf	9%
5 Other	10%

30 Day Summary

Jun 1 2026 — Jul 1 2026

3 Commits
2 Contributors
including 1 new contributor

12 Month Summary

Jul 1 2025 — Jul 1 2026

32 Commits
Down -12 (27%) from previous 12 months
4 Contributors
Up + 1 (33%) from previous 12 months

Most Recent Contributors

	Clint Adams		Alex James
	Julien Olivain		Sertonix
	... Nieuwenhuizen		...j Andrzejewski

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