__spawni() loops forever when parsing the path variable due to incorrect pointer update. This patch fixes the issue. Signed-off-by: Eric Le Bihan <eric.le.bihan.dev(a)free.fr> --- librt/spawn.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/librt/spawn.c b/librt/spawn.c index 79f5b06..25e3994 100644 --- a/librt/spawn.c +++ b/librt/spawn.c @@ -203,9 +203,10 @@ __spawni(pid_t *pid, const char *file, *--name = '/'; } - char *p; + char *p = (char *)path; do { char *startp; + path = p; p = strchrnul(path, ':'); /* Two adjacent colons, or a colon at the beginning or the end @@ -233,7 +234,6 @@ __spawni(pid_t *pid, const char *file, goto error; } - path = p; } while (*p++ != '\0'); error: -- 2.1.4