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diff --git a/malloc/memusage.c b/malloc/memusage.c
index 34e33475e3..7d1ee94b56 100644
--- a/malloc/memusage.c
+++ b/malloc/memusage.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/* Profile heap and stack memory usage of running program.
- Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
Contributed by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>, 1998.
@@ -200,7 +200,8 @@ me (void)
if (!not_me && fd == -1)
{
const char *outname = getenv ("MEMUSAGE_OUTPUT");
- if (outname != NULL)
+ if (outname != NULL && outname[0] != '\0'
+ && access (outname, R_OK | W_OK) == 0)
{
fd = creat (outname, 0666);