no, it's not using the same mechanism as a real chroot (since you need to be root user to create a chroot). cde uses strace to intercept all the system calls t

no, it's not using the same mechanism as a real chroot (since you need to be root user to create a chroot). cde uses strace to intercept all the system calls that a monitored child process makes, and re-writes all file access system calls to re-route their paths inside of cde-root/.