[badmintonbaseba]

Nowadays you have unprivileged options with mount namespaces. And from an unprivileged user namespace you can probably invoke chroot just fine as "root".

`chroot`, the function, has probably some baggage that makes it impossible to enable straight from an unprivileged program? Anyway, a chroot-like program seems to be implementable on top of user namespaces. Rootless docker is mostly that, with more namespace and cgroup isolation.