Re: pwd vs. extremely long pathnames

[Samium Gromoff]

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