Querying the ntlength and existence of the /var/run/cygfork directory in
the very first Cygwin process should not use nt_max_path_buf, as that
one is used by dll_list::alloc already.
---
 winsup/cygwin/forkable.cc | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/forkable.cc b/winsup/cygwin/forkable.cc
index 4fbc2abb3..350a95c3e 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/forkable.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/forkable.cc
@@ -472,17 +472,21 @@ dll_list::forkable_ntnamesize (dll_type type, PCWCHAR 
fullntname, PCWCHAR modnam
   if (cygwin_shared->forkable_hardlink_support == 0) /* Unknown */
     {
       /* check existence of forkables dir */
-      PWCHAR pbuf = nt_max_path_buf ();
+      /* nt_max_path_buf () is already used in dll_list::alloc.
+         But as this is run in the very first cygwin process only,
+        using some heap is not a performance issue here. */
+      PWCHAR pbuf = (PWCHAR) cmalloc_abort (HEAP_BUF,
+                                           NT_MAX_PATH * sizeof (WCHAR));
+      PWCHAR pnext = pbuf;
       for (namepart const *part = forkable_nameparts; part->text; ++part)
        {
          if (part->textfunc)
-           pbuf += part->textfunc (pbuf, -1);
+           pnext += part->textfunc (pnext, -1);
          else
-           pbuf += __small_swprintf (pbuf, L"%W", part->text);
+           pnext += __small_swprintf (pnext, L"%W", part->text);
          if (part->mutex_from_dir)
            break; /* up to first mutex-naming dir */
        }
-      pbuf = nt_max_path_buf ();
 
       UNICODE_STRING fn;
       RtlInitUnicodeString (&fn, pbuf);
@@ -504,6 +508,7 @@ dll_list::forkable_ntnamesize (dll_type type, PCWCHAR 
fullntname, PCWCHAR modnam
          cygwin_shared->forkable_hardlink_support = -1; /* No */
          debug_printf ("disabled, missing or not on NTFS %W", fn.Buffer);
        }
+      cfree (pbuf);
     }
 
   if (!forkables_supported ())
-- 
2.19.2

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