diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index f06db41d5..f9300177c 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2005-06-11  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@timesys.com>
+
+	* fhandler_console.cc (fhandler_console::read): Fix a compiler warning.
+
 2005-06-10  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@timesys.com>
 
 	* include/pthread.h: Change PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT to
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc
index a03cca5ec..4733c9f0c 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ fhandler_console::read (void *pv, size_t& buflen)
 		   an ASCII control character, interpret is as META. */
 		meta = (control_key_state & ALT_PRESSED) != 0
 		       && ((control_key_state & CTRL_PRESSED) == 0
-			   || (ich >= 0 && ich <= 0x1f || ich == 0x7f));
+			   || ((signed char) ich >= 0 && ich <= 0x1f || ich == 0x7f));
 	      else
 		/* Win9x: there's no way to distinguish Alt from AltGr, so rely
 		   on dev_state->meta_mask heuristic (see fhandler_console constructor). */