> PRoot supports OS resource virtualization in a way conceptually similar to namespaces. It does that by tracing processes with ptrace, the system call that debuggers rely on, which does not require root privileges.
https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/blog/2017/10/using-guix-without-being-root/
Do you know what this means? This means producing a working #appimage from #guix isn't intractable after all!
There is a performance hit if your software does a lot of syscalls.
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> PRoot supports OS resource virtualization in a way conceptually similar to namespaces. It does that by tracing processes with ptrace, the system call that debuggers rely on, which does not require root privileges. https://guix-hpc.bor…
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