From c6dc282bc785a876d35b40d2259088e732af18bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: j-b-m <jb@kdenlive.org>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2024 21:07:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix randomly broken mlt_repository with relocatable flag
 (#1031)

---
 src/framework/mlt_factory.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/framework/mlt_factory.c b/src/framework/mlt_factory.c
index 16469aa1c..771e83673 100644
--- a/src/framework/mlt_factory.c
+++ b/src/framework/mlt_factory.c
@@ -153,7 +153,10 @@ mlt_repository mlt_factory_init(const char *directory)
 #ifdef __APPLE__
         _NSGetExecutablePath(path, &size);
 #else
-        readlink("/proc/self/exe", path, size);
+        ssize_t len = readlink("/proc/self/exe", path, size - 1);
+        if (len != -1) {
+            path[len] = '\0';
+        }
 #endif
         char *appdir = mlt_dirname(mlt_dirname(strdup(path)));
         mlt_properties_set(global_properties, "MLT_APPDIR", appdir);