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Jails vs Chroot - What's the difference?

jails | chroot |

As verbs the difference between jails and chroot

is that jails is third-person singular of jail while chroot is {{cx|computing|Unix|lang=en}} To change the apparent root directory for a running process, affecting whether or not it can access certain files etc.

As a noun jails

is plural of jail.

jails

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (jail)

    • chroot

    English

    (wikipedia chroot)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To change the apparent root directory for a running process, affecting whether or not it can access certain files etc.

    • References

    * Usenet newsgroups: [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/%22chrooting%22