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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 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 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 cre-
	      ated).

       --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 version 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@debian.org>

       Clint Adams
	      <clint@debian.org>

       Timo Savola

MANUAL PAGE

       mostly by J.H.M. Dassen <jdassen@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)