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Fix invalid free

This is broken both in HEAD and in 2.3 branch.

Andreas.

2005-02-22  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@suse.de>

	* posix/execvp.c (execvp): Fix invalid free.

--- posix/execvp.c.~1.23.~	2005-01-29 01:31:23.000000000 +0100
+++ posix/execvp.c	2005-02-22 13:59:32.000000000 +0100
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ execvp (file, argv)
 	__set_errno (EACCES);
 
       free (script_argv);
-      free (name);
+      free (name - pathlen);
       if (path_malloc)
 	free (path);
     }

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