faked(1)

🎀 faked(1) 🎀 — Debian manual ✨

✨ NAME ✨

okay so the name is faked, and it's a daemon that remembers the fake ownership and permissions of files that fakeroot processes mess with 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

faked [--debug] [--foreground] [--cleanup] [--key msg-key] [--load]
[--save-file save-file] [--port TCP-port]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

bestie, listen 🫶 if a fakeroot process tries to change who owns a file, faked is the one that quietly remembers the new owner. 🧚 then, if that same fakeroot process calls stat() on that filename later, the libfakeroot wrapped stat() call asks faked for the fake ownership and so on for that file, and then reports it back. it's giving memory, it's giving receipts 📝✨

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --debug — prints debugging info to stderr 🔍
• --foreground — stays put instead of forking into the background 🦋
• --cleanup number — cleans up the semaphores 🧹
• --key key-number — don't make a brand new communication channel, just use the one named by the key 🔑 if that channel doesn't exist yet, it gets created for you 🌸
• --save-file save-file — saves the environment to save-file when it exits 💾
• --load — loads a previously saved environment from standard input 📥
• --unknown-is-real — for files it hasn't seen before, uses their real ownership instead of forcing them to root:root 🌈
• --port tcp-port — uses TCP port tcp-port 🔌

✨ BUGS ✨

okay, real talk 😭 the page says there are none so far. but be warned, the author has written quite a few much bigger (and smaller) programs, and never anything as tiny as fakeroot that had as many bugs as fakeroot. and it still was as usable as, say, fakeroot version 0.0_3, the first version that could be used to build itself. the chaos is unmatched 💀

✨ COPYING ✨

fakeroot is distributed under the GNU General Public License 📜 (GPL 2.0 or greater). ✅

✨ AUTHORS ✨

• joost witteveen — <joostje@debian.org> 👑
• Clint Adams — <clint@debian.org> 💜
• Timo Savola 🎀

✨ MANUAL PAGE ✨

mostly written by J.H.M. Dassen <jdassen@debian.org>, with mods and additions by joost and Clint 🫶

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• fakeroot(1) 🍓
• dpkg-buildpackage(1) 🌸
• debuild(1) 🦋
• /usr/share/doc/fakeroot/DEBUG 🔍

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okay that's the whole tea ☕💖 from the Debian Project, dated 2024-12-19, this is faked(1) signing off, periodt 💅✨