https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381304

--- Comment #5 from John Reiser <jrei...@bitwagon.com> ---
(In reply to John Reiser from comment #3)
> There is no guarantee that the kernel avoids writing into any
> portion of the whole buffer, although all known implementations write only
> an initial string [non-terminated] of the returned length.

One easily-imagined implementation technique would be for the kernel to build
the result in the output buffer incrementally, path-component by
path-component.  If the last path component is a symlink to a short absolute
path, then the result can be shorter than the preceding intermediate step.

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