diff -Nru a/udev-add.c b/udev-add.c
--- a/udev-add.c	Thu Dec 25 21:08:52 2003
+++ b/udev-add.c	Thu Dec 25 21:08:52 2003
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@
 		symlinks = dev->symlink;
 		while (1) {
 			linkname = strsep(&symlinks, " ");
-			if (linkname == NULL)
+			if (linkname == NULL || linkname[0] == '\0')
 				break;
 
 			strncpy(filename, udev_root, sizeof(filename));