--- namei.c.0	Thu May 13 20:27:19 1999
+++ namei.c	Thu May 13 20:27:43 1999
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
 	bh = NULL;
 	block = offset = 0;
 	while (block*BLOCK_SIZE+offset < dir->i_size) {
-		if (!bh) {
+		if (!offset) {
 			bh = minix_bread(dir,block,0);
 			if (!bh) {
 				block++;
@@ -74,7 +74,6 @@
 		if (offset < bh->b_size)
 			continue;
 		brelse(bh);
-		bh = NULL;
 		offset = 0;
 		block++;
 	}

.