diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 6be54d17..9227af03 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2001-12-10  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@arsdigita.com>
+
+	* utils.c (path_simplify): Correctly handle the unlikely case that
+	b starts out as path + 1.
+
 2001-12-10  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@arsdigita.com>
 
 	* utils.c (path_simplify): Rewrite, with better comments, and
diff --git a/src/utils.c b/src/utils.c
index fd283710..a245b5c2 100644
--- a/src/utils.c
+++ b/src/utils.c
@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ path_simplify (char *path)
 	{
 	  /* Handle "../foo" by moving "foo" one path element to the
 	     left.  */
-	  char *b = p;
+	  char *b = p;		/* not p-1 because P can equal PATH */
 
 	  /* Backtrack by one path element, but not past the beginning
 	     of PATH. */
@@ -537,10 +537,10 @@ path_simplify (char *path)
 	  /*         ^ p    */
 	  /*     ^ b        */
 
-	  if (b > path + 1)
+	  if (b > path)
 	    {
-	      /* Find the character preceded by slash or by the
-		 beginning of path. */
+	      /* Move backwards until B hits the beginning of the
+		 previous path element or the beginning of path. */
 	      for (--b; b > path && *(b - 1) != '/'; b--)
 		;
 	    }