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  r64434 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-06-20 18:13:58 -0500 (Fri, 20 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  Remove request for e-mail; it's unlikely these classes will be saved
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  r64435 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-06-20 18:14:32 -0500 (Fri, 20 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  Grammar fixes
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  r64440 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-06-21 08:29:12 -0500 (Sat, 21 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  Docstring typo
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  r64441 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-06-21 08:47:20 -0500 (Sat, 21 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  Use repr() for bad input strings; this makes the empty string or binary characters more visible
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  r64442 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-06-21 08:48:38 -0500 (Sat, 21 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  Docstring correction
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  r64443 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-21 09:26:19 -0500 (Sat, 21 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  Documentation fix.
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  r64445 | facundo.batista | 2008-06-21 12:30:06 -0500 (Sat, 21 Jun 2008) | 3 lines


  Reviewed and updated the documentation. Fixes #3017.
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  r64447 | facundo.batista | 2008-06-21 13:58:04 -0500 (Sat, 21 Jun 2008) | 6 lines


  Now a from submitted via POST that also has a query string
  will contain both FieldStorage and MiniFieldStorage items.

  Fixes #1817.
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  r64448 | facundo.batista | 2008-06-21 14:48:19 -0500 (Sat, 21 Jun 2008) | 5 lines


  In the deprecated functions I added an alert to review
  specially a section of the subprocess documentation
  that helps with the replacing of those functionss.
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  r64450 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-22 04:05:29 -0500 (Sun, 22 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  Turn section references into proper cross-references.
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  r64452 | facundo.batista | 2008-06-22 08:36:20 -0500 (Sun, 22 Jun 2008) | 5 lines


  Issue #2722. Now the char buffer to support the path string has
  not fixed length, it mallocs memory if needed. As a result, we
  don't have a maximum for the getcwd() method.
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  r64455 | facundo.batista | 2008-06-22 10:27:10 -0500 (Sun, 22 Jun 2008) | 4 lines


  Issue 3164. Small fix to don't repeat a comparation
  without necessity.
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  r64461 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-22 13:11:52 -0500 (Sun, 22 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  #3085: Fix syntax error.
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  r64464 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-22 13:31:54 -0500 (Sun, 22 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  Expand docstrings of sqlite3 functions.
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  r64466 | georg.brandl | 2008-06-22 14:07:59 -0500 (Sun, 22 Jun 2008) | 2 lines

  Write out "phi" consistently.
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  r64468 | facundo.batista | 2008-06-22 14:35:24 -0500 (Sun, 22 Jun 2008) | 4 lines


  Just returning nothing instead of rising TestSkipped, because
  it makes the test fail in the trunk.loewis-sun buildbot.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_posix.py b/Lib/test/test_posix.py
index f16abb2..b7ce71e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_posix.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_posix.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ except ImportError:
 import time
 import os
 import pwd
+import shutil
 import unittest
 import warnings
 warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', '.* potential security risk .*',
@@ -225,6 +226,44 @@ class PosixTester(unittest.TestCase):
             self.assertEqual(type(k), str)
             self.assertEqual(type(v), str)
 
+    def test_getcwd_long_pathnames(self):
+        if hasattr(posix, 'getcwd'):
+            dirname = 'getcwd-test-directory-0123456789abcdef-01234567890abcdef'
+            curdir = os.getcwd()
+            base_path = os.path.abspath(support.TESTFN) + '.getcwd'
+
+            try:
+                os.mkdir(base_path)
+                os.chdir(base_path)
+            except:
+#               Just returning nothing instead of the TestSkipped exception,
+#               because the test results in Error in that case.
+#               Is that ok?
+#                raise support.TestSkipped, "cannot create directory for testing"
+                return
+
+                def _create_and_do_getcwd(dirname, current_path_length = 0):
+                    try:
+                        os.mkdir(dirname)
+                    except:
+                        raise support.TestSkipped("mkdir cannot create directory sufficiently deep for getcwd test")
+
+                    os.chdir(dirname)
+                    try:
+                        os.getcwd()
+                        if current_path_length < 1027:
+                            _create_and_do_getcwd(dirname, current_path_length + len(dirname) + 1)
+                    finally:
+                        os.chdir('..')
+                        os.rmdir(dirname)
+
+                _create_and_do_getcwd(dirname)
+
+            finally:
+                shutil.rmtree(base_path)
+                os.chdir(curdir)
+
+
 def test_main():
     support.run_unittest(PosixTester)