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diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/gzip/gzexe.1 b/gnu/usr.bin/gzip/gzexe.1 index 68e41279d753e..8b62cd60637cf 100644 --- 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) +.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, |