diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index 37e60c37a..a78698178 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Mon Jul 24 21:10:00 2000  Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+	* syscalls.cc (_link): Corrected previous patch.
+
 Mon Jul 24 13:26:00 2000  Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
 
 	* fhandler.h (class fhandler_dev_random): Add members for managing
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc b/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
index 3e67c0972..1bc3a7f8d 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ _link (const char *a, const char *b)
 
       lpContext = NULL;
       cygwin_conv_to_full_win32_path (real_b.get_win32 (), buf);
-      cbPathLen = sys_mbstowcs (wbuf, buf, MAX_PATH);
+      cbPathLen = sys_mbstowcs (wbuf, buf, MAX_PATH) * sizeof (WCHAR);
 
       StreamId.dwStreamId = BACKUP_LINK;
       StreamId.dwStreamAttributes = 0;