Merged revisions 67154,67157-67159,67175-67176,67189,67224-67227,67234 via svnmerge from
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  r67154 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2008-11-07 21:46:17 -0600 (Fri, 07 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  Issue #4071: ntpath.abspath returned an empty string for long unicode path.
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  r67157 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-08 05:47:44 -0600 (Sat, 08 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  Don't use "HOWTO" as the title for all howto .tex files.
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  r67158 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-08 05:48:20 -0600 (Sat, 08 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  Update "Documenting" a bit. Concentrate on Python-specifics.
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  r67159 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-08 06:52:25 -0600 (Sat, 08 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix warning.
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  r67175 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-08 19:44:32 -0600 (Sat, 08 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  update link
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  r67176 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-08 19:52:32 -0600 (Sat, 08 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  fix comment
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  r67189 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-11 15:56:06 -0600 (Tue, 11 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  use correct name
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  r67224 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-15 02:10:04 -0600 (Sat, 15 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  #4324: fix getlocale() argument.
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  r67225 | brett.cannon | 2008-11-15 16:33:25 -0600 (Sat, 15 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  Clarify the docs for the 'strict' argument to httplib.HTTPConnection.
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  r67226 | brett.cannon | 2008-11-15 16:40:44 -0600 (Sat, 15 Nov 2008) | 4 lines

  The docs for httplib.HTTPConnection.putheader() have claimed for quite a while
  that their could be an arbitrary number of values passed in. Turns out the code
  did not match that. The code now matches the docs.
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  r67227 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-16 02:00:17 -0600 (Sun, 16 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  #4316: fix configure.in markup problem.
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  r67234 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-16 11:54:55 -0600 (Sun, 16 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  run autoconf
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diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index c590ec6..3892a91 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -2395,13 +2395,27 @@
 	if (unicode_file_names()) {
 		PyUnicodeObject *po;
 		if (PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "U|:_getfullpathname", &po)) {
-			Py_UNICODE woutbuf[MAX_PATH*2];
+			Py_UNICODE *wpath = PyUnicode_AS_UNICODE(po);
+			Py_UNICODE woutbuf[MAX_PATH*2], *woutbufp = woutbuf;
 			Py_UNICODE *wtemp;
-			if (!GetFullPathNameW(PyUnicode_AS_UNICODE(po),
-						sizeof(woutbuf)/sizeof(woutbuf[0]),
-						 woutbuf, &wtemp))
-				return win32_error("GetFullPathName", "");
-			return PyUnicode_FromUnicode(woutbuf, wcslen(woutbuf));
+			DWORD result;
+			PyObject *v;
+			result = GetFullPathNameW(wpath,
+						   sizeof(woutbuf)/sizeof(woutbuf[0]),
+						    woutbuf, &wtemp);
+			if (result > sizeof(woutbuf)/sizeof(woutbuf[0])) {
+				woutbufp = malloc(result * sizeof(Py_UNICODE));
+				if (!woutbufp)
+					return PyErr_NoMemory();
+				result = GetFullPathNameW(wpath, result, woutbufp, &wtemp);
+			}
+			if (result)
+				v = PyUnicode_FromUnicode(woutbufp, wcslen(woutbufp));
+			else
+				v = win32_error_unicode("GetFullPathNameW", wpath);
+			if (woutbufp != woutbuf)
+				free(woutbufp);
+			return v;
 		}
 		/* Drop the argument parsing error as narrow strings
 		   are also valid. */