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Message 65987 - Python tracker

$ python -c "print len('`pwd`'); import os; print os.getcwd()"
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in ?
OSError: [Errno 34] Numerical result out of range
$

The getcwd man page documents the ERANGE failure and suggests that the
calling application allocate a larger buffer and try again.