Pseudo incorporates functionality similar to that of fakechroot.

The implementation is basically as follows:  When incoming arguments
are known to be paths, they are automatically converted to absolute,
fully canonicalized, paths.  When the chroot(2) call is used, pseudo
intercepts it and stashes the path to the new root directory internally
in the client.  This path is then silently prepended to absolute
paths.  The internal tracking of file paths uses absolute paths
including the path to the chroot directory.  So, all underlying calls
are invoked with absolute, canonical, paths.

A few calls are then modified.  For instance, when readlink() returns
a link, it strips a leading prefix looking like the chroot directory;
when symlink() creates a link, if the link path is absolute, the chroot
directory is prepended to it.

This behavior, which may seem surprising, is an attempt to produce
path resolution equivalent to what would normally happen when
canonicalizing a path using real chroot; if you create a link to /tmp
while in a chroot environment, following that link should yield
<chroot>/tmp.  Arguably, now that we are intercepting nearly every
incoming path, we should just prepend the chroot path when following
absolute symlinks -- this may get revisited.

Similarly, when glob() is called, the path to be globbed has the
chroot directory prepended, and then the results have any leading
chroot directory stripped from them.

This implementation is far from complete or perfect; the intent is
that it provide enough functionality to allow RPM and similar tools
to run file system installs using chroot().