faked(1)                             Debian GNU/Linux manual                             faked(1)



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

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

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 own‐
       ership 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  ver‐
       sion 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 AT debian.org>

       Clint Adams
              <clint AT debian.org>

       Timo Savola

MANUAL PAGE
       mostly by J.H.M. Dassen <jdassen AT debian.org> mods/additions by joost and Clint.

SEE ALSO
       fakeroot(1), dpkg-buildpackage(1), debuild(1) /usr/share/doc/fakeroot/DEBUG



Debian Project                             17 June 2004                                  faked(1)