From f8f107772d5625ac1a471a9858284c16cb343330 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:33:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] (gethomedir): Make sure to always return a pointer that can
 be passed to free.

---
 src/ChangeLog | 5 +++++
 src/xrdb.c    | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index d5e4d20111e..9c7d551ce7f 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-04-10  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@suse.de>
+
+	* xrdb.c (gethomedir): Make sure to always return a pointer that
+	can be passed to free.
+
 2006-04-09  Richard Stallman  <rms@gnu.org>
 
 	* lisp.h (Fkill_emacs): Undo previous change.
diff --git a/src/xrdb.c b/src/xrdb.c
index 2b7888ebe84..c95c98efffd 100644
--- a/src/xrdb.c
+++ b/src/xrdb.c
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ gethomedir ()
     }
 
   if (ptr == NULL)
-    return "/";
+    return strcpy ((char *) malloc (2), "/");
 
   copy = (char *) malloc (strlen (ptr) + 2);
   strcpy (copy, ptr);
-- 
2.39.2