doc: mention files read before env setup

PR-URL: #50072 Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <[email protected]>
nodejs · Oct 8, 2023 · 81e4d2e · 81e4d2e
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@@ -576,6 +576,10 @@ There are constraints you need to know before using this system:
 * When creating symlinks the target (first argument) should have read and
   write access.
 * Permission changes are not retroactively applied to existing resources.
+* The Permission Model is initialized after the Node.js environment is set up.
+  However, certain flags such as `--env-file` or `--openssl-config` are designed
+  to read files before environment initialization. As a result, such flags are
+  not subject to the rules of the Permission Model.
 
 [Import maps]: https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#relative-url-with-fragment-string
 [Security Policy]: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/SECURITY.md