diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index 338ecf649..e5da597d5 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2006-05-23  Lev Bishop  <lev.bishop+cygwin@gmail.com>
+
+	* fhandler.cc (readv): Remove nonsensical assert.
+
 2006-05-23  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@timesys.com>
 
 	* select.cc (start_thread_socket): Delay setting thread local exitsock
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc
index b8c30da3c..66dffdc64 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc
@@ -966,8 +966,6 @@ fhandler_base::readv (const struct iovec *const iov, const int iovcnt,
       while (iovptr != iov);
     }
 
-  assert (tot >= 0);
-
   if (!len)
     return 0;