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-rw-r--r--lib/libalpm/alpm.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/alpm.c b/lib/libalpm/alpm.c
index 0798c0bc..54dfade2 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/alpm.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/alpm.c
@@ -65,8 +65,11 @@ alpm_handle_t SYMEXPORT *alpm_initialize(const char *root, const char *dbpath,
goto cleanup;
}
- MALLOC(hookdir, strlen(myhandle->root) + strlen(SYSHOOKDIR) + 1, goto cleanup);
- sprintf(hookdir, "%s%s", myhandle->root, SYSHOOKDIR);
+ /* to contatenate myhandle->root (ends with a slash) with SYSHOOKDIR (starts
+ * with a slash) correctly, we skip SYSHOOKDIR[0]; the regular +1 therefore
+ * disappears from the allocation */
+ MALLOC(hookdir, strlen(myhandle->root) + strlen(SYSHOOKDIR), goto cleanup);
+ sprintf(hookdir, "%s%s", myhandle->root, SYSHOOKDIR + 1);
myhandle->hookdirs = alpm_list_add(NULL, hookdir);
/* set default database extension */