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List two systems on which chroot works when run by non-root.

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2007-10-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (chroot invocation): List two systems on which
chroot works when run by non-root.
2007-09-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (expr invocation): Correct description of relative

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@cindex root directory, running a program in a specified
@command{chroot} runs a command with a specified root directory.
On many systems, only the super-user can do this.
On many systems, only the super-user can do this.@footnote{However,
some systems (e.g., FreeBSD) can be configured to allow certain regular
users to use the @code{chroot} system call, and hence to run this program.
Also, on Cygwin, anyone can run the @command{chroot} command, because the
underlying function is non-privileged due to lack of support in MS-Windows.}
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