diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/path.cc b/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
index e6dc03ffa..f2b5cdbf1 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
@@ -3115,6 +3115,11 @@ restart:
 	  /* One of the inner path components is invalid, or the path contains
 	     invalid characters.  Bail out with ENOENT.
 
+	     STATUS_IO_REPARSE_TAG_NOT_HANDLED is returned when trying to
+	     traversing a WSL symlink.  For all practical purposes it's
+	     equivalent to traversing SYSTEM- or LNK-type symlink returning
+	     STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND.
+
 	     Note that additional STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_INVALID and
 	     STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_SYNTAX_BAD status codes exist.  The first one
 	     is seemingly not generated by NtQueryInformationFile, the latter
@@ -3123,6 +3128,7 @@ restart:
 	     error in get_nt_native_path.  Both status codes are deliberately
 	     not tested here unless proved necessary. */
 	  if (status == STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND
+	      || status == STATUS_IO_REPARSE_TAG_NOT_HANDLED
 	      || status == STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_INVALID
 	      || status == STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_PATH
 	      || status == STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME