{
    "mode": "man",
    "parameter": "faked",
    "section": "1",
    "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/faked/1/json",
    "generated": "2026-06-03T00:20:40Z",
    "synopsis": "faked [--debug] [--foreground] [--cleanup] [--key msg-key] [--load]  [--save-file  save-file]\n[--port TCP-port]",
    "sections": {
        "NAME": {
            "content": "faked  -  daemon  that  remembers fake ownership/permissions of files manipulated by fakeroot\nprocesses.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SYNOPSIS": {
            "content": "faked [--debug] [--foreground] [--cleanup] [--key msg-key] [--load]  [--save-file  save-file]\n[--port TCP-port]\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "DESCRIPTION": {
            "content": "If a fakeroot process wants to change the ownership of a file, then faked is the process that\nremembers that new owner. If later the same fakeroot process does a stat() for that filename,\nthen  the  libfakeroot wrapped stat() call will first ask faked for the fake ownership etc of\nthat file, and then report it.\n\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "OPTIONS": {
            "content": "",
            "subsections": [
                {
                    "name": "--debug",
                    "content": "Print debugging information on stderr.\n",
                    "long": "--debug"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--foreground",
                    "content": "Don't fork into the background.\n",
                    "long": "--foreground"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--cleanup  number",
                    "content": "Cleanup the semaphores.\n",
                    "long": "--cleanup"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--key  key-number",
                    "content": "Don't allocate a new communication channel, but use channel specified by key. (If  the\nspecified channel doesn't exist, it's created).\n",
                    "long": "--key"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--save-file  save-file",
                    "content": "Save the environment to save-file on exit.\n\n--load Load a previously saved environment from the standard input.\n",
                    "long": "--save-file"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--unknown-is-real",
                    "content": "Use real ownership of previously-unknown files instead of setting them to root:root.\n",
                    "long": "--unknown-is-real"
                },
                {
                    "name": "--port  tcp-port",
                    "content": "Use TCP port tcp-port.\n\n",
                    "long": "--port"
                }
            ]
        },
        "BUGS": {
            "content": "None  so  far. Be warned, though: although I've written quite a few much larger (and smaller)\nprograms, I've never written anything that was as tiny as fakeroot, had as many bugs as fake‐‐\nroot,  and  still was as usable as, say, fakeroot version 0.03, the first version that could\nbe used to build itself.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "COPYING": {
            "content": "fakeroot is distributed under the GNU General Public License.  (GPL 2.0 or greater).\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "AUTHORS": {
            "content": "joost witteveen\n<joostje@debian.org>\n\nClint Adams\n<clint@debian.org>\n\nTimo Savola\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "MANUAL PAGE": {
            "content": "mostly by J.H.M. Dassen <jdassen@debian.org> mods/additions by joost and Clint.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SEE ALSO": {
            "content": "fakeroot(1), dpkg-buildpackage(1), debuild(1) /usr/share/doc/fakeroot/DEBUG\n\n\n\nDebian Project                              17 June 2004                                    faked(1)",
            "subsections": []
        }
    },
    "summary": "faked  -  daemon  that  remembers fake ownership/permissions of files manipulated by fakeroot processes.",
    "flags": [
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--debug",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Print debugging information on stderr."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--foreground",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Don't fork into the background."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--cleanup",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Cleanup the semaphores."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--key",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Don't allocate a new communication channel, but use channel specified by key. (If the specified channel doesn't exist, it's created)."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--save-file",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Save the environment to save-file on exit. --load Load a previously saved environment from the standard input."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--unknown-is-real",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Use real ownership of previously-unknown files instead of setting them to root:root."
        },
        {
            "flag": "",
            "long": "--port",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Use TCP port tcp-port."
        }
    ],
    "examples": [],
    "see_also": [
        {
            "name": "fakeroot",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/fakeroot/1/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "dpkg-buildpackage",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/dpkg-buildpackage/1/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "debuild",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/debuild/1/json"
        }
    ]
}