chroot

English

Etymology

From the name of the Unix command, short for "change root".

Verb

chroot (third-person singular simple present chroots, present participle chrooting, simple past and past participle chrooted)

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

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