[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#749960: schroot: please support a proot type of chroot

[Paul Wise]

Source: schroot
Severity: wishlist

Please add support for proot in schroot, it uses ptrace to emulate
chroots, which means that users who don't have any root access can
create and enter chroots. As a result schroot wouldn't have to become
root to create these chroots. Here is the package description:

Package: proot
Description-en: emulate chroot, bind mount and binfmt_misc for non-root users
 PRoot is a user-space implementation of chroot, mount --bind,
 and binfmt_misc.
 .
 This means that users don't need any privileges 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.
Homepage: http://proot.me

-- 
bye,
pabs

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