chroot (English, verb)
expansion: chroot (third-person singular simple present chroots, present participle chrooting, simple past and past participle chrooted)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To change the apparent root directory for a running process, affecting whether or not it can access certain files etc.
tags: Unix
Forms:
form: chroots
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chrooting
tags: participle
present
form: chrooted
tags: participle
past
form: chrooted
tags: past