diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index b9dc47f9e..2bf5e5eed 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2003-05-09  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+	* include/cygwin/config.h: New file.
+
 2003-05-09  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@redhat.com>
 
 	* cygthread.cc (cygthread::detach): Prioritize waiting for I/O
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/config.h b/winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/config.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4bafa3c18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/config.h
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+/* cygwin/config.h header file for Cygwin.
+
+   This wraps Cygwin configuration setting which were in newlib's
+   sys/config.h before.  THis way we can manaage our configuration
+   setting without bothering newlib.
+
+   Copyright 2003 Red Hat, Inc.
+   Written by C. Vinschen.
+
+This file is part of Cygwin.
+
+This software is a copyrighted work licensed under the terms of the
+Cygwin license.  Please consult the file "CYGWIN_LICENSE" for
+details. */
+
+#ifndef _CYGWIN_CONFIG_H
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+#define _CYGWIN_CONFIG_H
+
+#define __FILENAME_MAX__ (260 - 1 /* NUL */)
+#define _READ_WRITE_RETURN_TYPE _ssize_t
+#define __LARGE64_FILES 1
+#define __CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__ 1
+#if defined(__INSIDE_CYGWIN__) || defined(_COMPILING_NEWLIB)
+#define __IMPORT
+#else
+#define __IMPORT __declspec(dllimport)
+#endif
+
+#ifndef __WCHAR_MAX__
+#define __WCHAR_MAX__ 0xffffu
+#endif
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+#endif /* _CYGWIN_CONFIG_H */