bug#8577: GNU coreutils-8.12 thinks GNU libc-2.13's getcwd() is "buggy" ?

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday, April 28, 2011 14:52:08 Eric Blake wrote:
> glibc's getcwd() has _always_ been buggy.  It fails to return a name for
> a current working directory whose name is longer than PATH_MAX bytes,
> even though (in most cases) such a name can still be determined by
> walking back through .. links.  And coreutils' pwd(1) command works
> around this current limitation in glibc's getcwd().

interesting ... in a diff project, ive been dealing with getcwd() failing in 
too long dirs.  i can implement this functionality though rather than having 
it abort :).
-mike

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