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Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:40:11 +0000
From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Subject: Re: Crash with long path depths
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Comments: In reply to Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>
 "Crash with long path depths" (Aug 26,  9:29pm)
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On Aug 26,  9:29pm, Matt Johnston wrote:
}
} I've come across a crash in zsh with very (excessively) long
} path depths.

This is a known problem.  See the thread beginning with zsh-workers/21220
in the mailing list archives.