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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/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index 16aed52..8282134 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -1981,19 +1981,38 @@
 static PyObject *
 posix_getcwd(PyObject *self, PyObject *noargs)
 {
-	char buf[1026];
-	char *res;
+	int bufsize_incr = 1024;
+	int bufsize = 0;
+	char *tmpbuf = NULL;
+	char *res = NULL;
+	PyObject *dynamic_return;
 
 	Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS
+	do {
+		bufsize = bufsize + bufsize_incr;
+		tmpbuf = malloc(bufsize);
+		if (tmpbuf == NULL) {
+			break;
+		}
 #if defined(PYOS_OS2) && defined(PYCC_GCC)
-	res = _getcwd2(buf, sizeof buf);
+		res = _getcwd2(tmpbuf, bufsize);
 #else
-	res = getcwd(buf, sizeof buf);
+		res = getcwd(tmpbuf, bufsize);
 #endif
+
+		if (res == NULL) {
+			free(tmpbuf);
+		}
+	} while ((res == NULL) && (errno == ERANGE));
 	Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
+
 	if (res == NULL)
 		return posix_error();
-	return PyUnicode_FromString(buf);
+
+	dynamic_return = PyUnicode_FromString(tmpbuf);
+	free(tmpbuf);
+
+	return dynamic_return;
 }
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(posix_getcwdu__doc__,