[vdr] rotor plugin puzzling question

[martinez at embl.de]

Is it just me or the newly released rotor plugin for vdr 1.7.9 needs the
following patch to the plugin itself in order to run (although it compiles
fine without it)
If the author reads these lines I would love to know why...

--- rotor.c.old	2006-06-14 23:44:27.000000000 +0200
+++ rotor.c	2006-06-14 23:46:43.000000000 +0200
@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@
       continue;
     if ((diseqc=Diseqcs.Get(source->Code(),12000,'h')) ||
(diseqc=Diseqcs.Get(source->Code(),12000,'v')) ||
(diseqc=Diseqcs.Get(source->Code(),12000,'l')) ||
(diseqc=Diseqcs.Get(source->Code(),12000,'r'))) 
     {
-      char *c=strdup(diseqc->Commands());
+      char *commandstring=strdup(diseqc->Commands());
+      char *c=commandstring;      
       while (c = strchr(c, '['))
       {
         char *e = strchr(++c, ']');
@@ -131,7 +132,7 @@
           break;
         }
       }
-      free(c);
+      free(commandstring);
     }
     cRotorPos *p = RotorPositions.GetfromSource(source->Code());
     if (p==RotorPositions.First())