diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index 256788da6..f4b9b1c86 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2005-12-21  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+	* (fhandler_disk_file::fchown): Remove execute bits from "sensible"
+	permissions.  Use same setting as in symlink.
+
 2005-12-21  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
 
 	* fhandler_disk_file.cc (fhandler_base::fstat_helper): Fix inode number
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_disk_file.cc b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_disk_file.cc
index d8fc42b42..66585f00f 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_disk_file.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_disk_file.cc
@@ -569,13 +569,9 @@ fhandler_disk_file::fchown (__uid32_t uid, __gid32_t gid)
 	 new ACL with these useless permissions results in a potentially
 	 broken symlink.  So what we do here is to set the underlying
 	 permissions of symlinks to a sensible value which allows the
-	 world to read the symlink and only the new owner to change it.
-	 As for the execute permissions... they *seem* to be not
-	 necessary, but for the sake of comleteness and to avoid
-	 struggling with yet another Windows weirdness, the execute bits
-	 are added as well.  */
+	 world to read the symlink and only the new owner to change it. */
       if (pc.issymlink ())
-        attrib = S_IRWXU | S_IRGRP | S_IXGRP | S_IROTH | S_IXOTH;
+        attrib = S_IFLNK | STD_RBITS | STD_WBITS;
       res = set_file_attribute (pc.has_acls (), get_io_handle (), pc,
 				uid, gid, attrib);
     }