---
name: "faked-sysv"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "fakeroot"
version: "1.37.1.1-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/faked-sysv"
---

# faked-sysv(1)

daemon that remembers fake ownership/permissions of files manipulated by fakeroot processes.

## NAME

faked - daemon that remembers fake ownership/permissions of files manipulated by fakeroot processes.

## SYNOPSIS

**faked** **\[--debug\] \[--foreground\] \[--cleanup\] \[--key** *msg-key***\]** **\[--load\] \[--save-file** *save-file***\]** **\[--port** *TCP-port***\]**

## DESCRIPTION

If a fakeroot process wants to change the ownership of a file, then **faked** is the process that remembers that new owner. If later the same fakeroot process does a stat() for that filename, then the libfakeroot wrapped stat() call will first ask faked for the fake ownership etc. of that file, and then report it.

## OPTIONS

- **--debug**

  Print debugging information on stderr.

- **--foreground**

  Don't fork into the background.

- **--cleanup** *number*

  Cleanup the semaphores.

- **--key** *key-number*

  Don't allocate a new communication channel, but use channel specified by key. (If the specified channel doesn't exist, it's created).

- **--save-file** *save-file*

  Save the environment to save-file on exit.

- **--load**

  Load a previously saved environment from the standard input.

- **--unknown-is-real**

  Use real ownership of previously-unknown files instead of setting them to root:root.

- **--port** *tcp-port*

  Use TCP port tcp-port.

## BUGS

None so far. Be warned, though: although I've written quite a few much larger (and smaller) programs, I've never written anything that was as tiny as **fakeroot**, had as many bugs as **fakeroot**, and still was as usable as, say, **fakeroot** version 0.0\_3, the first version that could be used to build itself.

## COPYING

**fakeroot** is distributed under the GNU General Public License. (GPL 2.0 or greater).

## AUTHORS

- joost witteveen

  \<*joostje@debian.org*\>

- Clint Adams

  \<*clint@debian.org*\>

- Timo Savola

  ## MANUAL PAGE

mostly by J.H.M. Dassen \<*jdassen@debian.org*\> mods/additions by joost and Clint.

## SEE ALSO

[**fakeroot**(1)](/fakeroot/1.md), [**dpkg-buildpackage**(1)](/dpkg-buildpackage/1.md), [**debuild**(1)](/debuild/1.md), **/usr/share/doc/fakeroot/DEBUG**