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diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/gzip/gzexe.1 b/gnu/usr.bin/gzip/gzexe.1
index 68e4127..8b62cd6 100644 (file)
--- a/gnu/usr.bin/gzip/gzexe.1
+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/gzip/gzexe.1
@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@ This utility is most useful on systems with very small disks.
 Decompress the given executables instead of compressing them.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 gzip(1), znew(1), zmore(1), zcmp(1), zforce(1)
 Decompress the given executables instead of compressing them.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 gzip(1), znew(1), zmore(1), zcmp(1), zforce(1)

+.SH CAVEATS
+The compressed executable is a shell script. This may create some
+security holes. In particular, the compressed executable relies
+on the PATH environment variable to find
+.I gzip
+and some other utilities
+.I (tail, chmod, ln, sleep).

 .SH "BUGS"
 .I gzexe 
 attempts to retain the original file attributes on the compressed executable,
 .SH "BUGS"
 .I gzexe 
 attempts to retain the original file attributes on the compressed executable,