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 [4.5.9]
 * du no longer truncates file sizes or sums to fit in size_t
-* pwd now fails if the name of the working directory is so long that getcwd
+* work around Linux kernel bug in getcwd (fixed in 2.4.21-pre4), so that pwd
+  now fails if the name of the working directory is so long that getcwd
   truncates it.  Before it would print the truncated name and exit successfully.
 * `df /some/mount-point' no longer hangs on a GNU libc system when another
   hard-mounted NFS file system (preceding /some/mount-point in /proc/mounts)