diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index 93b993cd1..a42aeb4b3 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-01-09  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+	* fhandler_disk_file.cc (num_entries): Return 2 as link count if
+	directory unreadable.
+
 2003-01-09  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
 
 	* security.cc (get_nt_attribute): Always return -1 when read_sd()
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_disk_file.cc b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_disk_file.cc
index 586c5a5e7..ea338ffc6 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_disk_file.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_disk_file.cc
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ num_entries (const char *win32_name)
   handle = FindFirstFileA (buf1, &buf);
 
   if (handle == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
-    return 0;
+    return 2; /* 2 is the minimum number of links to a dir, so... */
   count ++;
   while (FindNextFileA (handle, &buf))
     {