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@@ -31,3 +31,15 @@ if it can't find the file it was asked to open. It relies on the --enable-open-zfile feature to open the file, and is enabled by default when --enable-open-zfile is enabled, and can be disabled by passing the --disable-stat-zfile flag to the configure script. + +All of these commands will be executed with whatever userid & privileges the +function is called with, relying on the caller to ensure the correct euid, +egid, etc. are set before calling. + +To reduce risk, the paths to these commands are now set at configure time to +the first version found in the PATH used to run configure, and do not depend +on the PATH environment variable set at runtime. + +To specify paths to be used for these commands instead of searching $PATH, pass +the XPM_PATH_COMPRESS, XPM_PATH_UNCOMPRESS, XPM_PATH_GZIP, and XPM_PATH_GUNZIP +variables to the configure command. |