PRoot

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Project Summary

PRoot is a user-space implementation of "chroot", "mount --bind", and "binfmt_misc". This means that users don't need any privilege or setup to do things like: using an arbitrary directory as the new root filesystem, making files accessible somewhere else in the filesystem hierarchy, or executing programs built for another CPU architecture transparently through QEMU user-mode. Also, developers can add their own features or use PRoot as a Linux process instrumentation engine thanks to its extension mechanism. Technically PRoot relies on "ptrace", an unprivileged system-call available in every Linux kernel.

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In a Nutshell, PRoot...

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has had 1,269 commits made by 42 contributors
representing 21,746 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with a well-commented source code
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by nobody
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 6 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in May, 2010
ending with its most recent commit almost 3 years ago

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