Merge pull request #31 from tmtm/fix-sysread-segv

FIX: IO#sysread occurs SEGV

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/io.c b/src/io.c
index d7e1b0fba..e80483145 100644
--- a/src/io.c
+++ b/src/io.c
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ mrb_io_sysread(mrb_state *mrb, mrb_value io)
   }
 
   if (mrb_nil_p(buf)) {
-    buf = mrb_str_new(mrb, "", maxlen);
+    buf = mrb_str_new(mrb, NULL, maxlen);
   }
   if (RSTRING_LEN(buf) != maxlen) {
     buf = mrb_str_resize(mrb, buf, maxlen);