fakeroot

A simple crate which provides the ability to redirect filesystem calls. This crate builds a library that can be used via LD_PRELOAD.

An example:

mkdir /tmp/etc
echo "tee hee" > /tmp/etc/hosts
FAKE_ROOT="/tmp" LD_PRELOAD="path/to/libfakeroot.so" cat /etc/hosts
# tee hee

License: GPL-3.0-only