diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index 104523278..7f4358b2c 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2002-01-23  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+	* path.cc (symlink): Fix check for already existing file.
+
 2002-01-21  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@redhat.com>
 
 	* cygmagic: Suppress error output when figuring out if sum takes an
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/path.cc b/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
index cfdd3aeda..d237a5d8b 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
@@ -2575,7 +2575,7 @@ symlink (const char *topath, const char *frompath)
     }
 
   win32_path.check (frompath, PC_SYM_NOFOLLOW);
-  if (allow_winsymlinks && !win32_path.error)
+  if (allow_winsymlinks && !win32_path.exists ())
     {
       strcpy (from, frompath);
       strcat (from, ".lnk");