Index: Modules/getpath.c =================================================================== --- Modules/getpath.c (revision 66332) +++ Modules/getpath.c (working copy) @@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ errno = EINVAL; return -1; } + cbuf[res] = '\0'; /* buf will be null terminated */ r1 = mbstowcs(buf, cbuf, bufsiz); if (r1 == -1) { errno = EINVAL; @@ -559,8 +560,6 @@ wchar_t tmpbuffer[MAXPATHLEN+1]; int linklen = _Py_wreadlink(progpath, tmpbuffer, MAXPATHLEN); while (linklen != -1) { - /* It's not null terminated! */ - tmpbuffer[linklen] = '\0'; if (tmpbuffer[0] == SEP) /* tmpbuffer should never be longer than MAXPATHLEN, but extra check does not hurt */