Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Hm, on Linux I can't use os.getcwd() with paths longer than PATH_MAX > as things are now:
Oh, right. I was assuming 1024 for PATH_MAX when doing my tests, but it really is 4096. > > Second, the test_posix change is a bit too tolerant. IMO it should > check that the error is ERANGE, and that we are under Solaris. > Otherwise the error shouldn't happen, should it? > > If you change 1027 to 4098, the test currently fails on Linux, too. I > think the only > reason why it never failed is that most systems have PATH_MAX=4096. Ok, then perhaps the test should be fixed? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9185> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com