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diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/resource_tracker.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/resource_tracker.py
index cc42dbd..ea36950 100644
--- a/Lib/multiprocessing/resource_tracker.py
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/resource_tracker.py
@@ -161,10 +161,10 @@ class ResourceTracker(object):
def _send(self, cmd, name, rtype):
self.ensure_running()
msg = '{0}:{1}:{2}\n'.format(cmd, name, rtype).encode('ascii')
- if len(name) > 512:
+ if len(msg) > 512:
# posix guarantees that writes to a pipe of less than PIPE_BUF
# bytes are atomic, and that PIPE_BUF >= 512
- raise ValueError('name too long')
+ raise ValueError('msg too long')
nbytes = os.write(self._fd, msg)
assert nbytes == len(msg), "nbytes {0:n} but len(msg) {1:n}".format(
nbytes, len(msg))