From 64db75b43e9cebc2035d0b7afc6bde5808f1e54d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ralph Castain <rhc@open-mpi.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:56:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix create_dirpath to shut valgrind up.

This commit was SVN r2800.
---
 src/util/os_create_dirpath.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/util/os_create_dirpath.c b/src/util/os_create_dirpath.c
index 4c5aee643f..b6904d163f 100644
--- a/src/util/os_create_dirpath.c
+++ b/src/util/os_create_dirpath.c
@@ -74,7 +74,9 @@ int ompi_os_create_dirpath(const char *path, const mode_t mode)
 	    free(bottom_up);
 	    return(OMPI_ERROR);
 	}
-	strcpy(bottom_up, dirname(bottom_up)); /* "pop" the directory tree */
+	tmp = strdup(bottom_up);
+	strcpy(bottom_up, dirname(tmp)); /* "pop" the directory tree */
+	free(tmp);
    }
 
     free(pth);