Subject: bug#15765: Crash in directory_files_internal

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:34:48 +1100

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

> David Reitter <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> This crash occurred after eval'ing the expression
>>
>> (directory-files "~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports" t "Aquamacs.*.crash")
>>
>> This directory exists, contains a few files, and I had eval'ed that
>> just a few second earlier without problems.
>>
>> The bug does not reproduce.
>>
>> Relevant lines in my dired.c:
>>
>>> 267	      Lisp_Object fullname;
>>> 268	      ptrdiff_t nbytes = len + directory_nbytes + needsep;
>>> 269	      ptrdiff_t nchars;
>>> 
>>> 271	      fullname = make_uninit_multibyte_string (nbytes, nbytes);
>>> 272	      memcpy (SDATA (fullname), SDATA (directory),
>>> 		      directory_nbytes);
>>> 
>>
>> Full crash log below.  The running binary was built based on Emacs
>> head as per Oct 24, git refid 7c5015698c3, with some patches, but
>> none to dired.c.
>
> Have you seen this again later?

More information was requested, but no response was given within a few
months, so I'm closing this bug report.  If the problem still exists,
please reopen this bug report.
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