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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/overview | 4 |
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diff --git a/ChangeLog.txt b/ChangeLog.txt index a95595b..de76a0c 100644 --- a/ChangeLog.txt +++ b/ChangeLog.txt @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ 2010-12-16: * (mhatle) change the journal from PERSIST to OFF + * (seebs) update docs now that fakeroot and password support are in, + this being long overdue 2010-12-15: * (mhatle) add sqlite call profiling, enable with NPROFILE @@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ some documentation on internals is provided in the doc/ directory. FUTURE DIRECTIONS: -* The chroot() functionality is incomplete. +* The chroot() functionality is incomplete, though now sufficient for + the real-world use cases we've tried. * We have no immediate plans to make pseudo work on other targets, but are not opposed to accepting patches to do so. (It isn't even CLOSE on OS X, largely because of the Linux-specific _STAT_VER stuff.) diff --git a/doc/overview b/doc/overview index 17049f5..37d223a 100644 --- a/doc/overview +++ b/doc/overview @@ -2,9 +2,7 @@ Overview: The pseudo program and library combine to provide an environment which provides the illusion of root permissions with respect to file creation, -ownership, and related functions. At this time, this does not extend to -emulating chroot functions or a virtual password database, but these features -may be added. +ownership, and related functions. The underlying mechanism of pseudo is a library inserted using LD_PRELOAD, which provides replacement symbols for core C library functions. At this |