cwdof vs proot

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cwdof		proot
	Project
1	Mentions	6
6	Stars	1,841
-	Growth	2.3%
10.0	Activity	2.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
C	Language	C
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

cwdof

Posts with mentions or reviews of cwdof. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-30.

cwdof - get the cwd of a process in OpenBSD
2 projects | /r/openbsd | 30 Sep 2022

I wrote this simple pledged C program to get the current working directory of a given PID in a OpenBSD system. I think it can be useful to someone out there: https://github.com/phillbush/cwdof

proot

Posts with mentions or reviews of proot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.

Two debian distros, both Termux-X11 and VNC gives black screen on one, workd on the other
2 projects | /r/termux | 10 Dec 2023
Is there hope for Linux on smartphones
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Aug 2022

Since they mentioned proot, that won't require a rooted device, see: https://proot-me.github.io/
I was also able to get a decent Ubuntu distribution including a desktop environment running on a non-rooted device, even got Blender to render the popular BMW demo, though that took a while.
Dockie: manage unprivileged chroots like Docker in a few lines of POSIX shell
7 projects | /r/suckless | 2 Jan 2022

or wherever you want to install it and downloading latest PRoot
Jailed development
4 projects | dev.to | 27 Nov 2021

Install proot and proot-distro via SSH

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cwdof and proot you can also consider the following projects:

arcan - Arcan - [Display Server, Multimedia Framework, Game Engine] -> "Desktop Engine"

termux-wayland - Not released and unmaintained Termux X11 add-on application.

htop - htop - an interactive process viewer

ubuntu-in-termux - This is a script by which you can install Ubuntu in your termux application without a rooted device

getcwd - fetch the current working directory of a process on OpenBSD

termux-packages - A package build system for Termux.

ShellCheck - ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

termux-app - Termux - a terminal emulator application for Android OS extendible by variety of packages.

termux-fedora - A script to install a Fedora chroot into Termux

manjaro-fs-arm64 - Manjaro rootfs with xfce4 and vncserver preinstalled. Just setup username, password and vnc password. Also one more edition with latest Anki preinstalled.

proot-distro - An utility for managing installations of the Linux distributions in Termux.

TermuxArch - Experience the pleasure of the Linux command prompt in Android, Chromebook, Fire OS and Windows on smartphone, smartTV, tablet and wearable https://termuxarch.github.io/TermuxArch/