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    Quote Originally Posted by chroot_wiki
    A chroot on Unix operating systems is an operation that changes the apparent disk root directory for the current running process and its children. A program that is re-rooted to another directory cannot access or name files outside that directory, and the directory is called a "chroot jail" or (less commonly) a "chroot prison". The term "chroot" may refer to the chroot system call or the chroot wrapper program.
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