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PRoot: User-space implementation of chroot, mount –bind, and binfmt_misc (proot-me.github.io)
19 points by nateb2022 2 hours ago | hide | past | web | 3 comments | favorite





Unless I am mistaken this cannot elide over the fundamental protections Android enforce which make it impossible to do cross-device symlinks to external SD cards in a non-rooted Android: the outer kernel blocks this, even though you can cd into the paths.

If (for example) you can overlay/union mount and have a synthetic upper layer FS which manages things, I could use this.


Ah! Finally I see a way to try nix (the package manager) on my existing installation without it requiring access to the root directory and other such stuff!

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix_Installation_Guide discusses that a bit more (also other solutions)

Unrelated, but does anyone know what's the deal between wiki.nixos.org and nixos.wiki? The former appears to be actually functional, but the latter ranks much higher in search engines and seems to be incorrectly treated by them as the primary source.



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