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> From: "Alfred M\. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
> Cc: gscrivano@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:53:20 +0200
> 
>    I also wonder whether we should keep the "#ifdef MAXPATHLEN"
>    branch, or just use the loop below on all platforms that have
>    getcwd.
> 
> If MAXPATHLEN is defined, it should be respected, if you try to use a
> file name that is longer than MAXPATHLEN then the behaviour of the
> system is undefined.

??? How can a file name on a system be ever longer than MAXPATHLEN,
which is a system-dependent limit?  Presumably, the value of
MAXPATHLEN is set to fit the longest possible file name on the
underlying file system.