diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index c35a6f6a0..3d09e6abd 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-11-04  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@redhat.com>
+
+	* pinfo.cc (_pinfo::commune_send): Initialize buffer or suffer random
+	crashes.
+
 2002-11-04  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@redhat.com>
 
 	* fhandler_process.cc (fhandler_process::fill_filebuf): Deal with error
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/pinfo.cc b/winsup/cygwin/pinfo.cc
index b294130d7..0f9510fda 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/pinfo.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/pinfo.cc
@@ -328,6 +328,10 @@ _pinfo::commune_send (DWORD code)
   HANDLE fromme = NULL, tothem = NULL;
   DWORD nr;
   commune_result res;
+
+  res.s = NULL;
+  res.n = 0;
+
   if (!pid || !this)
     {
       set_errno (ESRCH);