From 3ef06d7efe38b895354b20db5af1aae38392383b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 20:04:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] when making up the list of path parts, save the last entry
 pointing to NULL as otherwise we'll go nuts

---
 lib/ftp.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/ftp.c b/lib/ftp.c
index aa96871cb..43ea99801 100644
--- a/lib/ftp.c
+++ b/lib/ftp.c
@@ -2126,8 +2126,9 @@ CURLcode Curl_ftp(struct connectdata *conn)
     }
     else {
       cur_pos = slash_pos + 1; /* jump to the rest of the string */
-      if(++path_part >= CURL_MAX_FTP_DIRDEPTH) {
-        /* too deep */
+      if(++path_part >= (CURL_MAX_FTP_DIRDEPTH-1)) {
+        /* too deep, we need the last entry to be kept NULL at all
+           times to signal end of list */
         failf(data, "too deep dir hierarchy");
         retcode = CURLE_URL_MALFORMAT;
       }