2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5aab3f57ca..41c24aa3db 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Wed Sep 24 14:40:21 2008  NAKAMURA Usaku  <[email protected]>
+
+	* lib/tmpdir.rb: setup buffer with nul characters instead of spaces.
+	  fixed [ruby-dev:36493]
+
 Wed Sep 24 14:11:59 2008  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <[email protected]>
 
 	* lib/rexml/formatters/pretty.rb (REXML::Formatters::Pretty#wrap):
diff --git a/lib/tmpdir.rb b/lib/tmpdir.rb
index 2e82aa528e..bcd66ab424 100644
--- a/lib/tmpdir.rb
+++ b/lib/tmpdir.rb
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ class Dir
     require 'Win32API'
     CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA = 0x001c
     max_pathlen = 260
-    windir = ' '*(max_pathlen+1)
+    windir = "\0"*(max_pathlen+1)
     begin
       getdir = Win32API.new('shell32', 'SHGetFolderPath', 'LLLLP', 'L')
       raise RuntimeError if getdir.call(0, CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA, 0, 0, windir) != 0