diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index 88344b94f..e995ca0e2 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2002-05-24  Christopher January <chris@atomice.net>
+
+	* path.h (path_conv::path_conv): Initialise normalized_path to NULL.
+
 2002-05-03  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@redhat.com>
 
 	* net.cc (getdomainname): Change second argument of getdomainname to
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/path.h b/winsup/cygwin/path.h
index 79011ec13..7b47720e7 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/path.h
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/path.h
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ class path_conv
     check (src, opt | PC_NULLEMPTY, suffixes);
   }
 
-  path_conv (): path_flags (0), known_suffix (NULL), error (0), devn (0), unit (0), fileattr (INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES) {path[0] = '\0';}
+  path_conv (): path_flags (0), known_suffix (NULL), error (0), devn (0), unit (0), fileattr (INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES), normalized_path (NULL) {path[0] = '\0';}
 
   ~path_conv ();
   inline char *get_win32 () { return path; }