diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index 638e5fb77..9be9746a3 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2004-04-11  Pierre Humblet <pierre.humblet@ieee.org>
+
+	* dtable.cc (dtable::extend): Change order of memcpy and cfree.
+
 2004-04-10  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
 
 	* syscalls.cc (sync): Define void according to SUSv3.
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/dtable.cc b/winsup/cygwin/dtable.cc
index d09dfda88..532910410 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/dtable.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/dtable.cc
@@ -91,8 +91,8 @@ dtable::extend (int howmuch)
     }
   if (fds)
     {
-      cfree (fds);
       memcpy (newfds, fds, size * sizeof (fds[0]));
+      cfree (fds);
     }
 
   size = new_size;