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> If you could find a way to somehow intercept without requiring aliasing, this would be amazing.

I figured out while testing that `boxxy sh` works as expected, so I would imagine you can wrap any shell in it since it’s just a mount namespace.

> Also, as it is, isn't it problematic that programs might call others (outside of your shell, not respecting its aliasing).

Nope! Any spawned processes live inside the same mount namespace and see the same pretend view of the world.




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