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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