diff -r 5c0247a6f98a Modules/posixmodule.c
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c	Fri Apr 24 12:02:53 2015 -0400
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c	Fri Apr 24 10:04:32 2015 -0700
@@ -3267,12 +3267,15 @@
 static PyObject *
 posix_getcwd(int use_bytes)
 {
-    char buf[1026];
-    char *res;
+    char *buf, *tmpbuf;
+    char *cwd;
+    const size_t chunk = 1024;
+    size_t buflen = 0;
+    PyObject *obj;
 
 #ifdef MS_WINDOWS
     if (!use_bytes) {
-        wchar_t wbuf[1026];
+        wchar_t wbuf[MAXPATHLEN];
         wchar_t *wbuf2 = wbuf;
         PyObject *resobj;
         DWORD len;
@@ -3306,14 +3309,32 @@
         return NULL;
 #endif
 
+    buf = cwd = NULL;
     Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
-    res = getcwd(buf, sizeof buf);
+    do {
+        buflen += chunk;
+        tmpbuf = PyMem_RawRealloc(buf, buflen);
+        if (tmpbuf == NULL)
+            break;
+
+        buf = tmpbuf;
+        cwd = getcwd(buf, buflen);
+    } while (cwd == NULL && errno == ERANGE);
     Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
-    if (res == NULL)
+
+    if (cwd == NULL) {
+        PyMem_RawFree(buf);
         return posix_error();
-    if (use_bytes)
-        return PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(buf, strlen(buf));
-    return PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault(buf);
+    }
+
+    if (cwd && use_bytes) {
+        obj = PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(buf, strlen(buf));
+    } else {
+        obj = PyUnicode_DecodeFSDefault(buf);
+    }
+    PyMem_RawFree(buf);
+
+    return obj;
 }