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chrooting

chrooting is the present participle and gerund of chroot.

Meaning of chroot

Verb

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

  1. (Unix) To change the apparent root directory for a running process, affecting whether or not it can access certain files etc.
    • Running a server in a chrooted environment greatly enhances overall system security on a Unix system.2004, Jeremy D. Zawodny, Derek J. Balling, High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, Load Balancing & More, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 235

Questions about chrooting

What is chrooting the present participle and gerund of?
Chrooting is the present participle and gerund of chroot.

Words near chrooting in the dictionary

  1. chroococcoid
  2. chroococcoids
  3. chroolepoid
  4. chroot
  5. chrooted
  6. chrooting
  7. chroots
  8. CHROs
  9. Chrostowski
  10. Chrostowskis
  11. chrotta

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chrooting (page history and authors); chroot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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