Re: pwd vs. extremely long pathnames

[Samium Gromoff]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 19:32:50 +0300
Samium Gromoff <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 19:23:53 +0300
> Samium Gromoff <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> >     Given a quite long path (>4093 bytes), "pwd | wc -l" never produces a 
> > number more than
> >  4093.
> >     pwd from coreutils-4.5.7/glibc-2.3.1/linux-2.4.18 basically seems to 
> > cut the pathname.
> > 
> > regards, Serge Kosyrev, aka Samium Gromoff
>       Oh sorry folks, it seems that bash is the reason for this - $PWD itsel 
> is limited to
>  ~4090 bytes it seems
> 
> regards, Serge Kosyrev, aka Samium Gromoff

hmmm
/usr/include/linux/limits.h:#define PATH_MAX        4096        /* # chars in a 
path name */

regards, Samium Gromoff