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		krakensden on Oct 6, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zip Bomb PATH_MAX is defined but meaningless on both Linux and OS X.

comex on Oct 6, 2012 [–]

Unfortunately, this is not true. The OS X kernel can't deal with paths longer than MAXPATHLEN, which is defined as 1024.

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