diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index a045291fa..3514580f8 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2012-07-02  Christopher Faylor  <me.cygwin2012@cgf.cx>
+
+	* path.cc (symlink_info::check): Remove unneeded/unused variable.
+
 2012-07-02  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
 
 	* dll_init.cc (dll_list::alloc): Take long UNC paths into account.
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/path.cc b/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
index ddf99f971..0a6cad76c 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/path.cc
@@ -2372,8 +2372,6 @@ restart:
   bool had_ext = !!*ext_here;
   while (suffix.next ())
     {
-      bool no_ea = false;
-
       error = 0;
       get_nt_native_path (suffix.path, upath, pflags & PATH_DOS);
       if (h)
@@ -2404,7 +2402,6 @@ restart:
 		 root dir which has EAs enabled? */
 	      || status == STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER))
 	{
-	  no_ea = true;
 	  /* If EAs are not supported, there's no sense to check them again
 	     with suffixes attached.  So we set eabuf/easize to 0 here once. */
 	  if (status == STATUS_EAS_NOT_SUPPORTED