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Re:Nix-on-droid: Nix-enabled environment for your Android de... by Rufbdbskrufb473 on Sunday April 30, 2023 @08:06AM (#35761814)
I could be wrong, but I believe they were using a modified chroot with some preload libraries to intercept missing kernel calls.
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Re:Nix-on-droid: Nix-enabled environment for your Android de... by kortriephfhe on Sunday April 30, 2023 @11:32AM (#35763499)
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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