diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index bc001e1795..77ea2dfd7c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
-Fri Feb 27 15:49:41 2009  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+Fri Feb 27 17:45:25 2009  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
-	* file.c (file_load_ok): checks if regular file.  [ruby-dev:38097]
+	* file.c (file_load_ok): checks if regular file, except for the
+	  platform disallows to open directories, e.g. cygwin.
+	  [ruby-dev:38097], [Bug #1221]
 
 Fri Feb 27 14:39:40 2009  NAKAMURA Usaku  <usa@ruby-lang.org>
 
diff --git a/file.c b/file.c
index 270a3ab4cb..213491bda6 100644
--- a/file.c
+++ b/file.c
@@ -4521,13 +4521,19 @@ rb_path_check(const char *path)
 static int
 file_load_ok(const char *path)
 {
-    struct stat st;
-    int ret, fd = open(path, O_RDONLY);
+    int ret = 1;
+    int fd = open(path, O_RDONLY);
     if (fd == -1) return 0;
-    ret = fstat(fd, &st);
+#if !(defined DOSISH || defined __CYGWIN__)
+    {
+	struct stat st;
+	if (fstat(fd, &st) || !S_ISREG(st.st_mode)) {
+	    ret = 0;
+	}
+    }
+#endif
     (void)close(fd);
-    if (ret) return 0;
-    return S_ISREG(st.st_mode);
+    return ret;
 }
 
 static int