fakeroot(t)          Debian GNU/Linux manual          fakeroot(t)



NAME
       faked - daemon that remembers `fake' ownership/permissions
       of files manipulated by fakeroot processes.

SYNOPSIS
       faked [--debug] [--foreground] [--cleanup] [--key msg-key]

DESCRIPTION
       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 semafores.

       --key  key-number
              Don't allocate a new communication channel, but use
              chanel  specified  by key. (If the specified chanel
              doesn't exist, it's created).


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, fake-
       root 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).

AUTHOR
       joost witteveen <joostje@debian.org>

MANUAL PAGE
       mostly   by   J.H.M.   Dassen   <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>
       mods/additions by joost.

SEE ALSO
       fakeroot(t),        dpkg-buildpackage(e),        build(d)
       /usr/doc/fakeroot/DEBUG



Debian Project             26 July 1997               fakeroot(t)