diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog
index 1eb86c5c4..4ae01a8a6 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-07-18  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+	* pathnames.sgml: Change text for the order in which executables
+	are evaluated.
+
 2006-06-01  Joshua Daniel Franklin  <joshuadfranklin@yahoo.com>
 
         * faq-setup.xml (faq.setup.automated): New FAQ.
diff --git a/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml b/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml
index 608f7f31d..5ab09e472 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml
+++ b/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml
@@ -308,9 +308,11 @@ a      a.exe     b.exe
 432961010 b       432961010 b.exe
 </screen>
 If a shell script <filename>myprog</filename> and a program
-<filename>myprog.exe</filename> coexist in a directory, the program
-has precedence and is selected for execution of
-<command>myprog</command>.</para>
+<filename>myprog.exe</filename> coexist in a directory, the shell
+script has precedence and is selected for execution of
+<command>myprog</command>.  Note that this was quite the reverse up to
+Cygwin 1.5.19.  It has been changed for consistency with the rest of Cygwin.
+</para>
 
 <para>The <command>gcc</command> compiler produces an executable named
 <filename>filename.exe</filename> when asked to produce