Re: getcwd-path-max test useless?

[Jim Meyering]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Is the getcwd-path-max test really needed?  It only checks for a bug
> in non-released versions of Linux.  And is horribly broken on
> GNU/Hurd, since it tries to be smart with defining PATH_MAX to an
> absurd value (creating 40k/8 of directories is not fun, I don't think
> that I have that many directories on all my file-systems added
> together. :).

Thanks for reporting that.
It's already fixed for the next release.
There's plenty of discussion and the final patch here:

  http://bugs.debian.org/190738

        * getcwd-path-max.m4 (GL_FUNC_GETCWD_PATH_MAX): If PATH_MAX
        is not defined, don't run the test, and don't use the wrapper.
        Otherwise, on the Hurd, it would take a long time to create
        and remove a hierarchy about 4000 levels deep.
        Based on a patch from Robert Millan.

Such a problem wouldn't have made it into a major release if I had
access to a Hurd system for pre-release testing.  Can you help with that?