fix(stdlib): Remove memory corruption in File.fdReaddir #1573
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…of manually managing array memory
I found all sorts of errors when using File.fdReaddir. Sometimes it would hang without outputting data. Sometimes it would output data and then hang. Sometimes it would return cleanly with malformed data. Sometimes but not often it returned the right result!
Most frequent error:
Examples of malformed data returned:
While debugging I noticed that the when I printed
dirent
herelet dirent = { inode, path, filetype }
it always looked correct so I just changed the arr returned to stdlib array and appended to that. All the problems seem resolved :)