diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index 33699dde7..384171000 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2012-06-21  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+	* path.cc (realpath): Fix comment.
+
 2012-06-21  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
 
 	* path.cc (realpath): Call mount_info::conv_to_posix_path rather than
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/path.cc b/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
index 3b3958d8b..5a7d74ecb 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
@@ -3207,8 +3207,8 @@ realpath (const char *path, char *resolved)
     return NULL;
 
   /* Win32 drive letter paths have to be converted to a POSIX path first,
-     because path_conv lets the incoming path untouched except for converting
-     backslashes to forward slashes. */
+     because path_conv leaves the incoming path untouched except for
+     converting backslashes to forward slashes. */
   char *tpath;
   if (isdrive (path))
     {