1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/libbb/platform.c b/libbb/platform.c
index 03bbb798b..329b0237e 100644
--- a/libbb/platform.c
+++ b/libbb/platform.c
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ int FAST_FUNC usleep(unsigned usec)
          * If a signal has non-default handler, nanosleep returns early.
          * Our version of usleep doesn't return early
          * if interrupted by such signals:
-         *
          */
         while (nanosleep(&ts, &ts) != 0)
                 continue;
@@ -107,7 +106,8 @@ void* FAST_FUNC memrchr(const void *s, int c, size_t n)
 /* This is now actually part of POSIX.1, but was only added in 2008 */
 char* FAST_FUNC mkdtemp(char *template)
 {
-        if (mktemp(template) == NULL || mkdir(template, 0700) != 0)
+        /* NB: on error, mktemp returns an empty string, not NULL */
+        if (mktemp(template)[0] == '\0' || mkdir(template, 0700) != 0)
                 return NULL;
         return template;
 }