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Rufbdbskrufb473 on April 30, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nix-on-droid: Nix-enabled environment for your And...

I could be wrong, but I believe they were using a modified chroot with some preload libraries to intercept missing kernel calls.

kortriephfhe on April 30, 2023 [–]

IIRC it was `proot`, it's not a preload, but ptrace based.

preload based unprivileged chroot exists (libfakechroot), but doesn't work for static linked binaries.

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