diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index fb2250735..892255c45 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-03-19  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+	* fhandler_disk_file.cc (fhandler_cygdrive::fstat): Add standard read
+	permissions again.
+
 2010-03-18  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
 
 	* shared.cc (init_installation_root): Change to make sure that scope of
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_disk_file.cc b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_disk_file.cc
index 04eceaf24..b9877208a 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_disk_file.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_disk_file.cc
@@ -2235,7 +2235,7 @@ fhandler_cygdrive::fstat (struct __stat64 *buf)
 {
   fhandler_base::fstat (buf);
   buf->st_ino = 2;
-  buf->st_mode = S_IFDIR | S_IXUSR | S_IXGRP | S_IXOTH;
+  buf->st_mode = S_IFDIR | STD_RBITS | STD_XBITS;
   if (!ndrives)
     set_drives ();
   char flptst[] = "X:";