diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 697225828b..b31f75e7ae 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Thu Aug 12 23:39:02 2010  Tanaka Akira  <akr@fsij.org>
+
+	* ext/pathname/pathname.c (path_make_symlink): Pathname#make_symlink
+	  translated from pathname.rb.
+
 Thu Aug 12 21:18:27 2010  Tanaka Akira  <akr@fsij.org>
 
 	* ext/pathname/pathname.c (path_lstat): Pathname#lstat translated
diff --git a/ext/pathname/lib/pathname.rb b/ext/pathname/lib/pathname.rb
index 7a75b4fa47..035204e650 100644
--- a/ext/pathname/lib/pathname.rb
+++ b/ext/pathname/lib/pathname.rb
@@ -512,9 +512,6 @@ end
 
 class Pathname    # * File *
 
-  # See <tt>File.symlink</tt>.  Creates a symbolic link.
-  def make_symlink(old) File.symlink(old, @path) end
-
   # See <tt>File.truncate</tt>.  Truncate the file to +length+ bytes.
   def truncate(length) File.truncate(@path, length) end
 
diff --git a/ext/pathname/pathname.c b/ext/pathname/pathname.c
index 9462d26793..f98093ff87 100644
--- a/ext/pathname/pathname.c
+++ b/ext/pathname/pathname.c
@@ -393,6 +393,18 @@ path_lstat(VALUE self)
     return rb_funcall(rb_cFile, rb_intern("lstat"), 1, get_strpath(self));
 }
 
+/*
+ * call-seq:
+ *   pathname.make_symlink(old)
+ *
+ * See <tt>File.symlink</tt>.  Creates a symbolic link.
+ */
+static VALUE
+path_make_symlink(VALUE self, VALUE old)
+{
+    return rb_funcall(rb_cFile, rb_intern("symlink"), 2, old, get_strpath(self));
+}
+
 /*
  * == Pathname
  *
@@ -609,4 +621,5 @@ Init_pathname()
     rb_define_method(rb_cPathname, "rename", path_rename, 1);
     rb_define_method(rb_cPathname, "stat", path_stat, 0);
     rb_define_method(rb_cPathname, "lstat", path_lstat, 0);
+    rb_define_method(rb_cPathname, "make_symlink", path_make_symlink, 1);
 }