Pathnames followed by "..." when printed using printpathn

[Zubin Mithra]

Hi,

> printpathn is designed for printing paths, and paths cannot be longer than
> MAXPATHLEN.  Longer arguments would result to ENAMETOOLONG anyway, so
> there is no need to print more than MAXPATHLEN.

I did a few tests yesterday for fun and I got a surprising result for
getcwd. I've written about this at [1]. However, yes, I can't quite think
of a system call that would accept such a long path name.


[1]
http://x86overflow.blogspot.in/2014/05/playing-around-with-getcwd-readpath-and.html


Cheers,
-- zm
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