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The actual filename limit of the getcwd syscall is PAGE_SIZE. If we don't allocate a buffer big enough we get an assertion failure when $PWD is longer than PATH_MAX. Andreas. 2005-11-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getcwd.c (__getcwd): Increase default allocation size to one page. --- sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getcwd.c.~1.22.~ 2003-09-22 22:58:00.000000000 +0200 +++ sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getcwd.c 2005-10-01 23:41:53.000000000 +0200 @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ __getcwd (char *buf, size_t size) return NULL; } - alloc_size = PATH_MAX; + alloc_size = __getpagesize (); } if (buf == NULL) -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
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