[issue9185] os.getcwd causes infinite loop on solaris

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at 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?

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