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.}
 Synopses:
 
 @example