From 75d5ed8b58a0fddebd2e971695c0157effbd43aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 02:01:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] (movefile): Don't free new_dest. Bob McCracken reported that
 mv couldn't handle certain combinations of hard linked source files.

---
 src/mv.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/mv.c b/src/mv.c
index 111851f05e..cd03b5ab02 100644
--- a/src/mv.c
+++ b/src/mv.c
@@ -308,7 +308,9 @@ movefile (char *source, char *dest, int dest_is_dir, const struct cp_options *x)
       if (new_dest == NULL)
 	error (1, 0, _("virtual memory exhausted"));
       fail = do_move (source, new_dest, x);
-      free (new_dest);
+
+      /* Do not free new_dest.  It may have been squirelled away by
+	 the remember_copied function.  */
     }
   else
     {
-- 
2.47.3