From 1b929d2579bbd362e094f1087776a67dbbb8afea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 20:31:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] * sysdep.c (closedir): Don't free directory buffer if it
 looks 	like it and the DIR were malloced together.

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

diff --git a/src/sysdep.c b/src/sysdep.c
index e696cb3d352..2bbdf2640f2 100644
--- a/src/sysdep.c
+++ b/src/sysdep.c
@@ -2927,7 +2927,11 @@ closedir (dirp)
      register DIR *dirp;              /* stream from opendir */
 {
   sys_close (dirp->dd_fd);
-  xfree ((char *) dirp->dd_buf);       /* directory block defined in <dirent.h> */
+
+  /* Some systems allocate the buffer and the DIR all in one block.
+     Why in the world are we freeing this ourselves anyway?  */
+  if (dirp->dd_buf != (char *)(dirp + 1))
+    xfree ((char *) dirp->dd_buf); /* directory block defined in <dirent.h> */
   xfree ((char *) dirp);
 }
 #endif /* not AIX */