diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c7c0628e09..7932105e60 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Mon Mar 25 17:18:48 2002  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu.nakada@nifty.ne.jp>
+
+	* dir.c (rb_push_glob): local variable 'maxnest' was
+	  uninitialized.
+
 Mon Mar 25 13:24:20 2002  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* ext/socket/socket.c (bsock_do_not_rev_lookup_set): should not be
diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index 2e728adda2..8589b7801b 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -909,7 +909,7 @@ rb_push_glob(str, flags)
     char *p, *pend;
     char *buf;
     char *t;
-    int nest, maxnest;
+    int nest, maxnest = 0;
     int noescape = flags & FNM_NOESCAPE;
     VALUE ary;