bug#15765: Crash in directory_files_internal

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com> 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.

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