diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index 2314db392..27da34378 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2005-10-19  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@timesys.com>
+
+	* times.cc (utimes): Only consider fds opened with write access.
+
 2005-10-19  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@timesys.com>
 
 	* fhandler_disk_file.cc (fhandler_base::utimes_fs): Use existing handle
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/times.cc b/winsup/cygwin/times.cc
index cc4de9746..e4bcb8cef 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/times.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/times.cc
@@ -452,7 +452,8 @@ utimes (const char *path, const struct timeval *tvp)
 
   cygheap_fdenum cfd;
   while (cfd.next () >= 0)
-    if (strcmp (cfd->get_win32_name (), win32) == 0)
+    if (cfd->get_access () & (FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES | GENERIC_WRITE)
+	&& strcmp (cfd->get_win32_name (), win32) == 0)
       {
 	fh = cfd;
 	fromfd = true;