1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/editors/awk.c b/editors/awk.c
index 5a504d034..bc9e99a6f 100644
--- a/editors/awk.c
+++ b/editors/awk.c
@@ -2696,7 +2696,8 @@ int awk_main(int argc, char **argv)
         newfile("/dev/stdout")->F = stdout;
         newfile("/dev/stderr")->F = stderr;
 
-        for (envp = environ; *envp; envp++) {
+        /* Huh, people report that sometimes environ is NULL. Oh well. */
+        if (environ) for (envp = environ; *envp; envp++) {
                 char *s = xstrdup(*envp);
                 char *s1 = strchr(s, '=');
                 if (s1) {