From 4ad89555139cef8136f98c7bd1ab83bf003ef5e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:08:18 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] * src/dired.c: Add comment and code explaining magic number.

---
 src/dired.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/dired.c b/src/dired.c
index ce2a3d105e5..96063680d4d 100644
--- a/src/dired.c
+++ b/src/dired.c
@@ -937,7 +937,11 @@ so last access time will always be midnight of that day.  */)
   Lisp_Object dirname;
   struct stat sdir;
 #endif /* BSD4_2 */
-  char modes[12];
+
+  /* An array to hold the mode string generated by filemodestring,
+     including its terminating space and null byte.  */
+  char modes[sizeof "-rwxr-xr-x "];
+
   Lisp_Object handler;
   struct gcpro gcpro1;
   char *uname = NULL, *gname = NULL;
-- 
2.39.2