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Author pitrou
Recipients loewis, pitrou, skrah, vstinner
Date 2010-07-13.12:29:28
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> Even on systems where MAX_PATH is 1024 (a common value), it is still
> valid to create paths larger than that (using e.g. os.mkdir()).

It seems I am mistaken on that. MAX_PATH is actually 4096 on the Linux system I am testing on. Calling getcwd() in a path longer than that fails with ENAMETOOLONG.

Still, 1026 shouldn't be the hard coded max length.
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2010-07-13 12:29:30pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, loewis, vstinner, skrah
2010-07-13 12:29:30pitrousetmessageid: <1279024170.24.0.279365389359.issue9246@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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